A Scanner Darkly

Continuity mistake: When Barris first speaks to the police, he is snipping at his hair with a pair of scissors. When he stops, he holds his forearms up and then clasps his hands together. In the next shot, he is seen from behind, and his forearms are apart, but then shown from the front his hands are clasped again. (00:27:35)

Continuity mistake: When Ernie lifts the bike, he picks it up by the top wheel. When he is shown carrying the bike a second later, he is holding it by the lower bar.

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Continuity mistake: When Barris is served in the diner, french fries are scattered over his plate. When seen again, the french fries are replaced with vegetable sides.

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Continuity mistake: Donna's earrings disappear and reappear while she is drinking coffee in the restaurant.

Continuity mistake: While Bob/Fred is giving a speech at the NewPath building, he takes his arms off the Podium and turns his side to the crowd. In the next shot, he's facing forward and his hands are on the podium again.

Fred: What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? Does it see into me? Clearly? Or darkly?

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Question: When Bob is looking at a video, he stops at a figure of a woman. He then uses a switch and watches as the woman in the video turns into another woman. Why does he keep going back and forth between the two women?

Answer: It's only one woman in reality. He had sex with a woman named Connie, but woke up next to her later and thought it was his friend Donna. The video showing it as two women is Bob losing his grip on reality due to his addiction to Substance D.

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