Based on the excellent book by Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation takes a meandering, multi threaded look at how the fast food industry affects several facets of American life.

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I watched A Scanner Darkly a while back and thought it would be fun to check out Waking Life which was the first use of the stylized, rotoscope animation. I found it “interesting” but in a weak way, meaning it was fairly entertaining but I wouldn’t recommend it. Maybe a “meh +”.

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What’s good about A Scanner Darkly? Love for the Philip K Dick source material. Some surprisingly appropriate acting from Robert Downey Junior, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, and even Keanu Reeves. And certain key moments where the animation evokes the confusion and unreal moments of drugs.

But I see a failing that is sometimes attributable to recreational narcotics: an unfortunate tendency for the imaginer to apply too much profundity to their personal hallucinations. More simply put, an enlarged sense of self worth = ego.

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