I'll be honest. I'm not entirely sure what this movie is about. I think the general idea is: It's a wee bit in the future and a new drug is on the streets. A narc is essentially assigned to monitor himself.
It may be a little more complicated than that, but you know what? I don't actually care. I saw the trailer a few months ago, so when my husband said it was playing at the local artsy theater, I said "Word!" Weird, I remembered I wanted to see it, but that was about it.
The whole look of the film is just mind-fucking. It's like animated, but not. Like if you take a photo in Photoshop and use one of those artistic filters. I'm sure there's a technical name for this type, but I like to refer to it as the Charles Schwab look. I hate those commercials, but I dug the movie. Go figure. It was just entertaining and (surprisingly) funny at times, while maintaining this very intimate feel of drug use/addiction. What most amazed me was that I could tolerate Keanu Reeves. Who would have guessed that animated, he does fantastic work? That's the ultimate mind-fuck. Plus there was a pretty good supporting cast, especially Robert Downey Jr.