Waking Life (2001)
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
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Memorable, crazy movie
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Waking life is one of those movies, that in the middle of them you just know that It's the kind of movies that you know you are going to watch over and over again. it handles a bunch of the hardest questions that many intellectual and open minds ask in life, where you seem you have someone to speak with you about some of the ideas that go through your mind. Excellent movie.
Remind me to tell you about that dream i had last night.. there is something about animation that keeps me attached for more than 15 minutes... i always wondered about rem sleep and the meaning of.. I am alive and not in the waiting room.. keep work like this coming. Keep dreamingRegardsA
At first the visuals impressed me, they are really something new and I thought they were well made to transport a philosophical message, but I after half of the movie I realized that's it. This is the movie and it is nothing more than intellectual phrases and opinions, not a movie at all.And it's not like anything that was said is ground breaking new or has been put in great perspective or insight, no, nothing. It's a messy collection of basic philosophical statements and they go just as randomly as they come. They don't build up, tell a story or provoke a special thought. The director covers this mess up by suggesting that he might dream ... yeah wow ...I love philosophy but this movie was absolutely nothing new, it could be for someone who never got in touch with philosophy but in this case I doubt this is what such a person could like. But at least they could say they liked it to impress others. :) I'm giving it 3 stars just for the appreciation of the visuals and the approach of a philosophical genre. Hopefully there will be more such (better made) movies in future.
Richard Linklater is a well respected and renowned director in Hollywood, but when he feels he has something to say, he says it with artistic integrity and never talks down to his audience.This is one of the most inspired works of art i've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. the rotoscope feature of the film only enhances the philosophical and sociological ideologies. Linklater also explored rotoscoping to a more impressive degree with A Scanner Darkly some years later. i like to watch this film as often as i can, and completely recommend it.