Waking Life - 2001 (full animation movie, 1h38min)

[zeca61]

Waking Life is a digitally enhanced American live-action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film was Fox Searchlight Pictures' only production using this technique.
"Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries. We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves"


To watch it directly on Google Video: (bigger screen size)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...4250854515095#

[Gestalt]

I loved this film, it is one of my personal favorites. I had a hard time following it philosophically, but I enjoy a challenge.
I am not a fan of the whole paranoid aspect of reality though and this is my only criticism of the film, as well it can be dark and morbid at times.

I also tried the dream awareness technique presented in this film of attempting to turn of lights in a room, and it doesn't work!!!! Then you KNOW you are dreaming! Very cool.

[Oliver]

It is a great film.