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starring: Ames Asbell, Jeanine Attaway, Trevor Jack Brooks, Julie Delpy, Glover Gill
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0024543060451
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 16012
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Description:
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)
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - hang on for the ride
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Good movies like this aren't made very often.
this movie covers a lot of ground, things that people need realize or hear at the very least. just a lot of people talking about some very important issues. well presented, well written, properly executed and effectively implemented. should be in every movie aficionado's collection!
Rating: - open you rmind
I love the thought provoking dialogue I was expecting that I wasn't completely pleased with the presentation. The way this film is "animated", to me, distracts fom the message a bit...
Rating: - Waking Life
Waking Life
This movie is surreal. It is captured in real life via a hand held camera, then it was sent to six different artists to create their own style of animation over the live action. The styles are all unique, giving the viewer amazing views of interations between the main character and his many acquaintances in his dream/real(?) world. The animation is the very best visual reprsentation of what I can remember of hallucinations on LSD from 40 years ago. It's amazing. The movie has ... Read More
Rating: - Eye opening and artistic
This movie is very well done. The animation is great, I especially liked the way it matched the characters personality. It's cool to see so many different opinions and thoughts on life and existence. Awesome movie!
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