Theatrical playing season was relatively short, and finding a cinema that was playing A Scanner Darkly as hard as chewing a bit of jerky that could last well over a decade from a nuclear fall out.

Taking the rotoscopic action out of the equation is to ignore one of the main reasons for walking up to the box office they some times use when they're not using the Candy Bar as the place to flog the tickets. A marvellous looking film, trippy in a most passive way, the scramble suit and the effects of drug use definitely working the bean right down to the bone.

Both Robert Downey, Jr. and Woody Harrelson's characters find themselves rambling at various times with the strict sense of paranoia as a sheer motivator of their thoughts. Kind of like watching that which makes the spoken word all the more enjoyable. Like a poetry slam without the need to have a shot of knock out juice in the hands of the judges.