revelshade
Active Member
I probably don't see more than 5 new movies a year, so maybe someone else here can add to this short list:
Movies, not based on any particular PKD work, which are so phildickian you would laugh in the writer's face if he denied Dick was a primary influence.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Truman Show (1998)
Dark City (1998)
I haven't seen Stranger Than Fiction (2006) but it seems like a candidate.
I've sometimes suspected David Lynch of being a fan. His tone is obviously very different and his obsessions appear to be very personal, but (for instance) Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001) both seem to consist of two or more realities than are clearly related but cannot be reconciled in any straightforward way. They make me think of Ubik and Three Stigmata or even Valis, except instead of Dick's metaphysical disasters the event that shatters the protagonist's world/mind is the murder of a woman.
Any other likely suspects?
Movies, not based on any particular PKD work, which are so phildickian you would laugh in the writer's face if he denied Dick was a primary influence.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Truman Show (1998)
Dark City (1998)
I haven't seen Stranger Than Fiction (2006) but it seems like a candidate.
I've sometimes suspected David Lynch of being a fan. His tone is obviously very different and his obsessions appear to be very personal, but (for instance) Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001) both seem to consist of two or more realities than are clearly related but cannot be reconciled in any straightforward way. They make me think of Ubik and Three Stigmata or even Valis, except instead of Dick's metaphysical disasters the event that shatters the protagonist's world/mind is the murder of a woman.
Any other likely suspects?