A Scanner Darkly

In a dystopian future, an undercover agent named Bob Arctor is tasked with infiltrating a drug ring producing a hallucinatory substance called Substance D. As he becomes addicted himself, he begins to lose his own identity.

• First full-length feature film shot entirely in digital ink-and-paint.
• Robert Downey Jr. improvised most of his lines in the movie.
• The movie took six years to complete.
• The film's visual style is inspired by rotoscoping technique.
• Keanu Reeves took a 80% pay cut to make this film.

• What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart?
• We're all dreaming, Arctor, or whatever your name is.
• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs.
• What does the scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly?
• You'll all be commended for this. You can't know what it means. The sacrifices that have been made. You can't possibly... you can't possibly fathom that.