Waking Life Movie
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Waking Life is the rare kind of movie that makes your jaw drop in more ways than one. It’s worth the price of admission (more than once, in my opinion) just to behold the ‘rotoscoping’ animation and deep thoughts.
Amazon.com’s Review:
“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.”
Thanks Joel for bringing me to this this movie - I owe you one :-)
Aaron Schaap Says:
Some of you have asked me where this is playing. I saw it at the IMAX theator in Grand Rapids (off the East Beltline). I’m pretty sure that the night I saw it was its last night on screen.
If any of you find this movie somewhere - please buy it more me and I’ll pay you back right away. If you can’t buy it then let me know ASAP. Or if you find a place for me to download it off the Internet - that would be great as well…
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN !!!!!!!!