• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    A Scanner Darkly, the drug epidemic is controlled by the pharmaceutical companies and they are still rich at the end.

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      But the movie ends with the brainfried undercover cop picking a drug-producing flower to send to his friends as a gift. It’s implied that’s what they need to bring the drug empire down.

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        8 months ago

        It’s implied that it could go either way, but the ending it has ended before that could be decided. Also that undercover cop burned out his brain for a cause he never really signed up for.