Waking Life

Waking Life

Waking Life
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Actor: Adam Goldberg, Charles Gunning, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Louis Black
Brand: WIGGINS,WILEY
Cinematographer: Tom Pallotta
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

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Movie Review: Indie Greatness
Summary: 5 Stars

So the great Richard Linklater gave us Slacker and Dazed and Confused, but then he gave us this wonderful work of art.

I really am not going to say much about the film, but that is extremely fun and well-made, and for the price of the DVD, you almost have to check it out! It will get you thinking..

Summary of Waking Life

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


A man in a dream state begins to question whether waking or dreaming is the true reality; while on his journey in the dream he meets many interesting characters who talk with him about the meaning of life, perception and human existance.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 15-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD

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