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Summary: TEDIOUS
Review: People, really, I have a minor in Philosophy, and the film is just as boring as sitting through a lecture of Immanuel Kant's Hermeneutics. It's like they ran about with a digital camera, imported the entire thing into their Mac and hit "animate."All this film does is speak in circles of nothing of proof. Its all boring theory. Imagine cornering your local philosophy professor, asking him to talk endlessly about what he's teaching this semester, and there you have this film. If you're interested in philosophy, I recommend you enroll yourself in college and take the courses. The understanding of very heavy concepts are better explained in this environment. God forbid anyone assimilate the knowledge instead of just sitting there like a bobble-head, pretending to understand what's being spoken. You'll learn nothing from this film. Mike
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Summary: -WOW-
Review: Wow, this was the impression i was left with after watching this movie. "Waking Life" is intensly philosophical, it challenges your perception on life, death, religion, society and reality itself. How much of a role do your dreams play in your waking life? Can you control your dreams or are you controlled? These ideas are a medium for the more philosophical disscusions the lead has with the countless people he talks do while wondering around doing absolutley nothing. The amount of talking in the film could be intimidating but only because it forces you to think about what is being said because it is all very deep stuff. At one stage a woman talks of death as being an extended dream that you can't wake from. The anonimity of the majority of characters lets the ideas take form free of any pre-concieved notions you might have if say the ideas were coming from someone well known. The mass of talking is balanced well with the very innovative animation. The film becomes a living breathing work of art with the characters being represented in watercolour, charcoals, line drawings and in styles reminiscent of surrealists such as magrite or dali and some scenes looking familar to a picasso painting. The animation is used to great effect to emphasize some of the characters points. In short if you want to be challenged, if you want to view life from a new perspective, watch this movie.
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Summary: Suitable for late night phone calls in junior high
Review: First of all, the philosophy of this film is juvenile. (...) You know, it is possible to "get" something and still not like it.
On a serious note; do not watch this if you are epileptic. Since the frames are rotoscoped entirely by hand, they do not line up precisely from one frame to the next. This results in a strobing effect that left me with a splitting headache within 2 minutes, and left me nauseous within 5.
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Summary: Dream is destiny
Review: "Waking Life" is fantastic. The animation alone pulls you in, but it's the philosophies that keep you in. This is the kind of movie that makes more sense each time you watch it. "Waking Life" will not only inspire you to think, but also to dream.
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Summary: It's easy, just wake up..
Review: Waking Life is a true achievement in our contemporary films filled with tasteless and insipid stories. Waking Life isn't a story, it's a dream, another parallel universe where the protaganist Wiley Wiggins weaves in and out of others conversations and intelligence poiting towards his own understanding of the difference between dreams and reality. What is so facsinating about this movie is the way that Richard Linklater decides to present this information in a sort of suttle dialect made by real life actors and then painted over to resemble animation. I completely was taking in awe by this film and what it had to say about the normality of what we know is real and what we choose to think is real thus creating our own universe where we can listen to others and not have any control, just floating away or levitating (which Wiley did alot in his dreams) into more mind numbing thoughts. Wiley finds that characteristics of being asleep are not being able to tell light differences and not being able to read his clock which seem to distort if he looks at it so every time he looks at the clock he is unable to tell what time it is because in your sleep, there is no time.
There definetly are some mind numbing lines in this movie such as short phrases said by strangers passing by Wiley which seem to just flutter before you and make no sense at all. If you are interested in intelligent, suttle, and imaginary movies breaking all possibility of remaining in the real world, this movie is definetly for you. It is a true marvel and work of art.
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Summary: Wake up and smell the truth
Review: This film is so incredible that I can barely believe that it even exists. If you are sick of the predictable, crappy pap that theatres are full of, buy 10 copies of this movie, because you will want to give a copy to all of your friends. However if you are the type of person who can't keep your eyes off of the soap operas, If you don't know the meaning of words like fecund or psychical or if you have every episode of the Dukes of Hazard on tape, then this is probably not the film for you.
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Summary: Great invention!
Review: It is not like anything I have ever seen. Very witty.
Very original both in content and form -great graphic work.
Still I recognize that this is very peculiar. Hate it or love it kind of thing.
If you are bored of all these movies that look the same, if you like to think, to wonder, if you are fascinated by day/nightdreaming...you'll probably love it.
But if you want a movie with a clearly structured and foreseable plot, if you want to laugh or cry or enjoy a movie without thinking -which is fine here and there-don't buy this.
To undergo the intented brain revolution you need to watch this movie carefully, not just sit in front of a screen .
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Summary: A Movie That Makes You Think
Review: Waking Life is a movie that will make you think. If you want to have an interesting conversation watch this movie. You need to have a large attention span. If you do not at least there are little things they added that can keep your attention. The movie starts out interesting and starts to get boring. It gets more interesting in the end. Its a very artsy movie so you need to have a sophisticated taste. If you have severe motion sickness I sugest you do not watch this.
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Summary: The Haiku Review
Review: Perception wavers. Great art provokes reaction, Connections in life.
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Summary: PHILOSOPHY CLASS ON FILM, AND JUST AS BORING
Review: This film isn't impressive. I spent four years in college, got my fill of classic and contemporary philosophy, and now I watch it in an animated format. The animation didn't make it more interesting. To make a film like this....go to a university, film a philosophy professor ranting on about whatever he knows and offers, send it thru some art program on your apple, and voila...you have WAKING LIFE. Snore. mike
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