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A Scanner Darkly wasn't so much plot as it was just a series of events. The beginning was so uncomfortable and made me so upset I couldn't handle it. Thinking back on it now, I think it serves as trying to bring us into the drug world. As if we are also on Substance D. Maybe the whole movie is like that.
The end of the story hit you ala Soylent Green. Until my viewing companion remembered the blue flower, I thought everything was just a fever dream from Bob and that he was still on the drug. I was shocked when they told him his name (Bruce) and he just accepted it. In the end of the movie, you realize that Bob isn't the main character (or he might be who knows), but the victim. You think everyone else is dumb and confusing and that Bob seems to be above everyone, but actually he's below them. They used him, and that made me angry.
I don't know what Bob's real name is. It could be Bob or Fred since we don't know if he was actually a cop before he got addicted or if he was always Bob and just became a cop for some reason. Drug reasons. I think the former, since Bob says he didn't want to become addicted, but they showed a scene that might have been Bob's life with a family and stuff.
The scene that wasn't further explained and felt left out to me was when Bob and Donna are talking and some government worker is watching them. I guess since it was later revealed who they both where but that scene just felt off to me.
The most unrealistic aspect of the film, however, is that they thought that seven years into the future they thought everyone would still have flip phones.