One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' Page #6

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a little bilateral dysfunction there.

I mean, might have seemed

a little slushed.

Are you getting any cross-chatter?

- What?

- Cross-chatter between hemispheres.

If there's damage to

the left hemisphere...

...where the linguistic skills

are located...

...then sometimes the right hemisphere

will fill in to the best of its ability.

I don't know.

I mean, not that I'm aware of.

What do you see in this second picture?

A sheep.

Show me the sheep.

An impairment of set-background

discrimination...

...can get you into a heap of trouble.

Instead of perceiving no forms,

you perceive faulty forms.

So there is no sheep here, is there?

Was I close?

This is not a Rorschach test,

where some abstract blot...

...can be interpreted many ways

by many subjects.

This has one specific object.

In this case, a dog.

A dog.

What's that mean,

that I saw a sheep instead?

Who knows.

Only after the entire set has been run...

...can we determine...

- Why this is superior to the Rorschach...

...is it's not interpretive.

There are many wrongs,

but there is only one right.

You either get it or you don't.

And if you show a run of not getting it...

...then we have a fix on

a functional impairment...

...and we dry you out for a while,

until you test better later on.

At New Path?

- Undoubtedly.

- Undoubtedly.

Now, what do you see in this drawing...

...among these particular

black-and-white lines?

Plastic dog sh*t.

The little kind you can buy

and put in someone's bed.

Can I go now?

You know, Fred, if you keep

your sense of humor like you do...

...you just might make it after all.

Make it. Make what?

The team? The girl?

Make good? Make do?

Make out? Make sense?

Make money? Make time?

Define your terms.

The Latin for "make" is facere...

...which always reminds me of fuckere...

...which is Latin for "to f***."

And I haven't been getting sh*t

in that department lately.

If you guys are psychologist-types...

...and you've been monitoring my

endless debriefings with Hank, tell me:

What the hell is Donna's deal?

What do I do? I mean...

...how do you make it with that kind of

sweet, unique, stubborn little chick?

You could buy her flowers.

Really?

This time of year, you can get

little blue flowers at any nursery.

Give them to her.

Yeah.

Hey, Fred, glad you could make it.

This is the informant who phoned in

about Bob Arctor, and I mentioned him.

- Yes.

- Anyway, he phoned in again...

...and we challenged him to step forth

and identify himself.

Do you know this man?

Sure do.

You're James Barris, aren't you?

So, Mr. Barris, what's your information?

I have evidence that Mr. Arctor is part of

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