It is a shame that the ideas over identity, drugs and the morals of the war on drugs are not better played out. However none of them really come together to produce anything of that much value. Parts of it are funny, parts of it are trippy and parts of it are dramatic. "Making sense" was not one of the qualities I really needed, which was just as well since narratively there isn't a lot to follow along with. Written at a time when his marriage had broken down and he himself was struggling with his drug use and split identities, Dick's material does offer much of interest as long as it can be delivered in such a way to be engaging and interesting. I had reasonably high hopes for this film but also the fear I have when anyone takes on material that some have called "unfilmable". Becoming hooked on the drug himself and becoming friends with the people he is meant to be informing on, the officer starts to suffer a breakdown with memory and concentration loses combined with a loosening grip on reality. While the officer's identity is kept secret from his colleagues and superiors, he himself starts to lose touch with who he actually is meant to be. Losing the battle against the drug, the LAPD place an officer undercover as a substance D user. In the near future a powerful new drug substance D is hooking users with every new hit.
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