Waking Life
Waking Life
0 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
f0i Slacker
0 and the unquenchable knowledge-seeking of Hermann Hesse's
f0i Siddhartha
0 . 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 (
f0i Dazed and Confused
0 '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.
f0i --Jason Verlinde
0
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| title: |
Waking Life |
| theatricalDate: |
30-11-2000 |
| purchase date: |
16-07-2006 |
| publisher: |
20th Century Fox |
| published: |
07-05-2002 |
| price: |
$9.98 |
| net Rating: |
4 |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| minutes: |
99 |
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174732813.730615 |
| genre: |
Comedy
Family Features
4-for-3 Comedy
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| fullTitle: |
Waking Life |
| features: |
Anamorphic
Animated
Closed-captioned
Color
Dolby
Subtitled
Widescreen
NTSC
1.85:1 |
| currentValue: |
$4.50 |
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| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
B00005YU1O
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