Tazered and bundled into the back of a van by the Police?
Has free speech been abolished in this future drug culture? Or were the police in on the whole Substance D epidemic?
I didn't really get this scene, if anyone could explain.
Eternity is really long... especially near the end.
-Woody Allen
No explicit reason is given, and ultimately it's left up to the viewer's imagination.
It's unlikely free speech is abolished per se though there are obviously enough signs throughout the movie that society has entered a very thinly-disguised police state that there may well be restrictions on what can be said. Then again, you certainly get the sense that Jones's character is an agitator who does such things regularly, so the police may well have had some type of "legitimate" warrant out for him on something. This is assuming it was the police who picked him up -- IIRC the van itself was unmarked and the people who got him were just in black riot gear... of course all the cops in the movie are shown dressed as such, but the word "police" is on the uniform, and I don't remember if the squad who picked him up had that printed on their fatigues.
The police weren't in on the Sub D epidemic -- that was New Path, and remember that Arctor (a cop) was ultimately a police gambit to infiltrate New Path and prove they were the source -- but there are clues throughout the movie (and book) that the government was certainly using Sub D as an excuse for tightened control domestically and military intervention abroad where "it is believed" Substance D came from.
Honey tastes sweeter when you anger the bees.
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What kind of movie are you?
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Has free speech been abolished in this future drug culture? Or were the police in on the whole Substance D epidemic?
Because the director buys into the garbage Alex Jones is selling. The book had no such scenario in it. The book also mocked The Fountainhead, unlike the movie.
This was a good movie, but I wish Linklatter hadn't injected his own personal political BS into it. Somehow I doubt Philip K. Dick would have been a big Alex Jones fan.
I think Alex Jones is probably a huge PKD fan, for all the wrong reasons.
One thing is for certain. If PKD was alive today he'd be a huge Alex Jones fan.
Neither one of you provides any arguments for these statements. Not for, not against. Therefore worthless.
I've been loving too much, caring too little -- TormentoR.
None of us were trying to validate our opinions to you, because you had nothing to do with the conversation. Therefore worthless.
shareWhen you are trying to validate your opinion it does not matter whether you tried to convince a random stranger of your opinion. An argument should stand on its own regardless of that. If you wish to express random nonsense and prefer to not be called on making wild claims I have a suggestion for you: try to enter a room with only 4 walls and a door, close the door, and start talking. Nobody will hear what you'll have to say, so you don't have to back up your claims! For the rest of the world: when you express yourself and are expressing *beep* (or in this case: lack any premises to support your argument) you'll be called on it, and you'll have to live with the fact you can (and often will be) called on it.
I've been loving too much, caring too little -- TormentoR.