Waking Life
by Bob Sabiston, Richard Linklater
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Actor: Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater, Ryan Power, Trevor Jack Brooks, Wiley WigginsDirector: Bob Sabiston, Richard Linklater
Brand: WIGGINS,WILEY
Writer: Richard Linklater
Producer: Anne Walker-McBay
Producer: Caroline Kaplan
Producer: John Sloss
Producer: Jonah Smith
Producer: Jonathan Sehring
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Waking Life
DVD Review: This is a movie to watch over and over and over again.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you enjoy dream movies, this is the best! It is up there with "What the Bleep" but is based on philosophical discourse rather than scientific lecture. The water colored digital animation is amazing in itself. I've been loaning out my copy to all my friends and they all share my love for this avant guard movie.DVD Review: Probably the stupidest movie I have ever seen!
Summary: 1 Stars
I HATE this movie with every fiber of my being. I watched it with some friends that LOVE it and I almost had to disown them. I think the filter they used on this movie and Scanner Darkly is a STUPID GIMMIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you cant make an interesting movie don't try to cover it up with a stupid photoshop filter. For those of you who think it is "animation", your WRONG! It was filmed with real people then it had a filter applied to it (I work in the industry, trust me). Which makes it NOT animation. If I could give this movie negative stars I would. 1 star is VERY generous.
This movie reminds me of when I was in high school and everyone was trying weed for the first time and every thing was just "totally blowing their mind, man"
You want some REAL philosophy? read Plato
If you think this movie is DEEP, your stupid. Get educated.
sorry
DVD Review: Very original
Summary: 3 Stars
"Waking Life" is probably not like any other film you've seen before: the majority of it consists of philosophical monologues that express different perspectives on the loosely connected ideas which the main character is trying to explore. On the whole, these monologues range from the fascinating to the obnoxiously trite, and even though this film expresses some wonderful concepts, it also manages to present the cliche ideas in a completely serious fashion.
Having said that though, "Waking Life" is still a unique cinematic experience worth watching. Even though the plot line has very little continuity, it's the ideas that really matter. In some ways, the main character is almost irrelevant; it's not so much about him discovering these concepts as it is about us discovering them. Unfortunately though, at times the philosophical monologues are thrown at us in such a haphazard manner that we have very little time to absorb, much less intellectualize them. Although many scenes are truly valuable, others are just jarring or distracting (for instance, in one scene a stranger walks past the main character and simply says, "Kierkegaard's last words were, 'Sweep me up'!").
On the other hand though, I feel like in a way we are meant to be confused, just as the main character is. The animation technique is certainly a good choice for this effect, and is very well-done. Another very positive aspect of this film is the soundtrack, which is superb. Overall, I think this is a pretty decent film, even if its moments of brilliance are broken up by waves of generic pop philosophy.
DVD Review: trippy visuals; excellent dialogue
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent movie if you want to think. This movie had me thinking about life in completely different ways. Not only is the dialogue compelling, but the visuals are trippy - emphasizing even more what the movie is about.DVD Review: hang on for the ride
Summary: 5 Stars
Waking Life is a superb loopy deep-dive into a rotoscoped Linklater universe - talking heads made witty & visually interesting, sometimes beautiful, sometimes lurid, sometimes - oh, everything else you might imagine animation can do in the hands of the man who did "Slackers" -- existential, smart, provocative, fun, disturbing & sometimes blindingly articulate: seductive and right the whole way through. Tugs at you multi-dimensionally: teaches you to bring the dream up & go down to the dream: sort of Freud for the new age. Bravo to all of the many who groomed & goosed this into its miraculous being. There's no waking up from it.
Guy Kettelhack
New York City
Description of Waking Life
From the director of Slacker and Dazed and Confused comes one of the most imaginative animated features ever made. This funny, ingenious film, which Rolling Stone Magazine calls "nothing short of amazing," explores the fascinating question: "Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake- walking through our dreams"? Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to lifes most important questions in a world that may or may not be reality in the "most visually alive movie of the year." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times)Waking Life is a film that never settles down. Or maybe it never wakes up. Regardless, Richard Linklater's animated meditation seems to strike a perfect balance between the plotless meanderings of Slacker and the unquenchable knowledge-seeking of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Any way you look at it, this is a weird, original movie.
As he attempts to figure out what separates dreams from reality, the protagonist (Dazed and Confused's Wiley Wiggins) hears an earful from everyone he stumbles upon. Ramblings range from the scholarly (Linklater's former college professor Robert C. Solomon gives a monologue) to the banal (of which there are plenty). Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Steven Soderbergh, and Adam Goldberg all get animated cameos, basically playing themselves. The dream-centered dialogues eventually grow mind-numbing, but that's OK; the animation steals the show. Each frame of the movie, which was first shot with live actors, was painted over, and the process renders a distorted and trippy collage of sights and sounds. Linklater's film is ultimately quite poignant, but, as with any good journey, you'll need to sit through some fairly tedious moments before reaching the destination. --Jason Verlinde
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