Fields of Substance D - Abstract Art With Real Meaning

 

Every time I drive by these Orange County fields, barbwired and bunkered.

I am reminded of A Scanner Darkly.

 

 

 

A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American animated science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. Wikipedia

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A Scanner Darkly is a BSFA Award winning 1977 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California, in the then-future of June 1994, and includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use (both recreational and abusive). The novel represents one of Dick's best-known works, and served as the basis for a 2006 film of the same name.

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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.

Director: Richard Linklater Writers: Philip K. Dick (novel), Richard Linklater (screenplay)

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr.

In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Arctor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begins to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions.

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A Scanner Darkly (2006) Quotes

[last lines]

Fred: I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field.

[picks up a blue flower]

Fred: A present for my friends... at Thanksgiving.

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"As part of the rehab program, Arctor is renamed "Bruce" and forced to participate in cruel group-dynamic games intended to break the will of the patients. The story ends with Bruce working at a New-Path farming commune, where he is suffering from a serious neurocognitive deficit after withdrawing from Substance D. Although considered by his handlers to be nothing more than a walking shell of a man, "Bruce" manages to spot rows of blue flowers growing hidden among rows of corn, and realizes the blue flowers are Mors ontologica, the source of Substance D. The book ends with Bruce hiding a flower in his shoe to give to his "friends" – undercover police agents posing as recovering addicts at the Los Angeles New-Path facility – on Thanksgiving.

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Google: define locus

lo•cus 

/lōkəs/Noun

1. A particular position, point, or place.

2. The effective or perceived location of something abstract: "the real locus of power is the informal council".

Synonyms

place - spot - position - location - locality – space

 

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