A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly

Everything is not going to be OK.

2006100 min6.8 / 10

A paranoid, philosophically dense descent into identity dissolution and surveillance dystopia, where the line between observer and observed collapses.

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

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