10 Sci-Fi Movie Endings No One Understands

Quick question: Who would you trust more, a pharmaceutical company or the feds?

No matter your answer, the ending of this Philip K. Dick adaptation is likely to leave you heartbroken. A Scanner Darkly is likely the most personal of the many adaptations mined from the prolific sci-fi writer’s back catalogue. Its tale of an undercover cop who falls in with a crowd of drug users and grows to care for them more than his shadowy superiors was based on Dick’s own experience with drugs and the gradual dissolution of his friend group through the tragedy of addiction.

So appropriately enough, the end of this dark 2006 adaptation sees Keanu Reeves’ paranoid antihero become addicted to Substance D. He appears to be blissfully ignorant of the fact that he’s farming the flowers used to synthesize the drug for the mysterious and dangerous company who produce the drug. by the end.

But then he steals a sample to… Provide his superiors, meaning he is still undercover?

Provide for himself, since he’s still addicted?

Provide to his friends, who the viewer is pretty sure are dead and gone?

Hard to tell. But whatever the answer, it’s probably better than being stuck farming drugs for your enemies.