Waking Life

Director: Richard Linklater

Countries of origin: United States

Language: English

Release date: March 7, 2002

Sound mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1

Also known as: Despertando a la vida (2008)

"Waking Life" is an animated film directed by Richard Linklater, starring Willie Weggis and Julie Delpy . It was released in the United States on October 19, 2001.

The film tells the protagonist wandering from one place to another, constantly encountering strange people .

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By Daphnee 2022-04-19 09:02:16

Woke up, my head is mushy

The process of watching this movie is like a dream, the process is long, the brain is exhausted, I want to stop, but I can't stop it... I finally finished watching it, I seem to understand something, but I don't seem to understand anything, and I feel dizzy Yes, like boiled a mess.

In your dreams, in other people's dreams, in dreams in dreams, in dreams of people in dreams...
you in your dreams, you in other people's dreams, others in your dreams, others in other people's...
By Hilma 2022-04-19 09:02:16

Do you still dream after death?

Sometimes after falling asleep, you feel chest tightness or even suffocation unconsciously, but you will not wake up, you are having some dreams, you are in another world. You don't even realize the feeling of tightness in your chest at this time, but you just feel that something is wrong in your dream, so that it is shrouded in your dream, such as a hazy sky. And watching this movie, you may also have such a feeling of chest tightness. Just reading the subtitles is enough to make you suffer....
By Emory 2022-04-19 09:02:16

I want to watch a movie, not for the NetEase Open Class! ! !

3 points.

1. If I want to study philosophy, I can go to a philosophy book, or go back to the university to study, need he teach me here? The film is not well shot, and the endless lectures are the same as lectures, but the key is not good! Even super-cut cuts like "Mulholland Drive" and "21 Grams" are at least storytelling. What is this movie doing? It's just babble, babble, and if it's like that in front of me, I'll slap him! It's like promoting Amway!

2. I don't like the...
By Adeline 2022-03-25 09:01:11

Fragments and excerpts

I like movies that talk about life in such a chatty way. Sure enough, the same director and the male and female starring have the same style. However, this one covers a wider range, not only philosophy, but also the semiotics of science, physics and biology, which is more difficult to understand, but even if you understand it, you don't understand it. Therefore, most people feel that after watching it, "I understand a lot of things, but I still can't live my life."
Although I also feel...
By Kayden 2022-03-25 09:01:11

A long and short review

(8.5)
It's certainly not a movie that's at least watchable, and the level of fragmentation is quite annoying (Woody Allen's talent is not everyone). But it is undeniable that this film also shows the unique magic that animation can have as a form of expression of film. It is said that the production method is to use software to transfer animation after DV shooting. In principle, this is very similar to "My Love in the Stars: The Mystery of the Starry Sky" (this is not considered...

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By Gregorio 2022-04-24 07:01:14

There is no difference between dreams and reality. Every time we wake up from a dream, it is essentially a death. When we die in the so-called reality, it is only one of thousands of...
By Fay 2022-04-24 07:01:14

Facts have proved that creativity and pretending, philosophical and long-winded are just a line between...
By Hollie 2022-04-24 07:01:14

Seeing the appearance of many familiar real people, Ethan and Julie were discussing the separation of souls before dawn, but they came here to talk about the survival time of the complete soul = = Because the content is a bit obscure, and the shaking of the screen will cause comparison Symptoms of drowsiness and hypoxia. You can look at the true meaning of life, because after reading it, you will find how empty you are, because you have to eat, sleep, and live a solid life after you are fully...
By Cleta 2022-04-24 07:01:14

Waking life comes a decade after Slack. There are many similarities between the two: a number of seemingly random characters talk about their philosophical views, and both are a sense of emptiness and confusion. Ten years later, the nihilistic ronin becomes a lost dreamer. This is a nightmare that cannot be woken up, and it is still a dream after waking up. The film weaves philosophical speculation and illogicality, while the animated images flow poetically. His body was shaking, and he was...
By Kirstin 2022-04-24 07:01:14

I'm a big fan of Richard, and I'm completely attracted and conquered by love at XX. The animation is so esoteric and the topics are so obscure that I doze off many times, but this kind of chattering dialogue is a form of expression that I love so much. The human mind and mind are really mysterious, and can think about so many different propositions, the meaning of existence, the value of life, and so on. The animation style is peculiar, the shooting method is novel, and the proposition is...

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Old Man: As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.

Boat Car Guy: Man this must be like... parallel universe night. You know that cat that was just in here? Just ran out the door? Well, he comes up to the counter, you know, and I say "What's the word, turd?" And he lays down this burrito and he kind of looks at me, kind of stares at me and says, "I have but recently returned from the valley of the shadow of death. I'm rapturously breathing in all the odors and essences of life. I've been to the brink of total oblivion. I remember and ferment the desire to remember everything."

Wiley: So, what did you say to that?

Boat Car Guy: Well, I mean, what could I say? I said, "If you're going to microwave that burrito, I want you to poke holes in the plastic wrapping because they explode. And I'm tired of cleaning up your little burrito doings. You dig me?"
Accordion Player: And this is where I think language came from. It came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival, like water we came up with a sound for that

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Accordion Player: but when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. When I say love the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travel through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say, Yes they understand, but how do I know they understand? Because words are inert, they'r ejust symbols, they're dead. And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it's unspeakable. And yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think that's what we live for.
Philosophy Professor: What you do makes a difference. We should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.

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