Dear Nicola Butler,
your documentary on PKD was informative and innovative. I liked the visuals from different places in LA which were a part of the documentary. It was a nice idea to read out passages from PKD's novels while you showed us parts of LA. The guy who read out passages or dialogs from the novels sounded a bit like Sean Penn.
There was a great editing/directorial flourish when a discussion on Dick's mother cuts immediately to a scene from Bladerunner when one of the androids is questioned about his mother. Your documentary also borrows ideas from Dick's novels when Gilliam turns up with a spray can named PKD and Elvis Costello who reads names of PKD's novels from off the back of a record.
Most of the interviewees narrated their personal experiences with Dick and their perspective on his novels. Terry Gilliam was very good, he seemed to be very excited while discussing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I also liked one of his wives who was very candid and admitted that she was middle class and bourgeois. It was interesting to not that a broke PKD used to eat horse food bought from a pet food shop. The shopkeeper says this is why the main character in Valis was named Horselover Fats. Some conspiracy theories about who destroyed PKD's house and his eventual breakdown were also interesting.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(8/10)
your documentary on PKD was informative and innovative. I liked the visuals from different places in LA which were a part of the documentary. It was a nice idea to read out passages from PKD's novels while you showed us parts of LA. The guy who read out passages or dialogs from the novels sounded a bit like Sean Penn.
There was a great editing/directorial flourish when a discussion on Dick's mother cuts immediately to a scene from Bladerunner when one of the androids is questioned about his mother. Your documentary also borrows ideas from Dick's novels when Gilliam turns up with a spray can named PKD and Elvis Costello who reads names of PKD's novels from off the back of a record.
Most of the interviewees narrated their personal experiences with Dick and their perspective on his novels. Terry Gilliam was very good, he seemed to be very excited while discussing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I also liked one of his wives who was very candid and admitted that she was middle class and bourgeois. It was interesting to not that a broke PKD used to eat horse food bought from a pet food shop. The shopkeeper says this is why the main character in Valis was named Horselover Fats. Some conspiracy theories about who destroyed PKD's house and his eventual breakdown were also interesting.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(8/10)
