If you have had such an experience (dream in a dream), it is recommended to watch "WAKING LIFE", but be mentally prepared because this There is basically no plot in the movie. A person wakes up in a dream, listens to different people talking, then wakes up, finds that it is still a dream, and keeps talking to others. And the things he said are really difficult to understand and they are sentence after sentence, even if you look at the Chinese subtitles, you will find it difficult to understand such as existentialism, Nietzsche's ego, ego, superego, evolution, psychology, linguistics, the reincarnation of Buddhism, Baudry Asia's virtuality and simulation, postmodernism, "sacred" film language, liberalism, dreams and death...
Some of the more impressive fragments in the film are a driver's testimonials about freedom, a suicidal person's remarks about suicide, A ferocious curse of an imprisoned black man, a radical speech by an anarchist angry youth, a TV interview with director Steven Soderbergh, four young people complaining about reality, a strange story at a gas station and a bar, an orangutan The speech of the two filmmakers about the nature of the film, the chats of the two successful ladies about themselves, the interpretation of dreams by many people...
In short, the male protagonist wakes up from one dream after another, and every time he wakes up, he starts A whole new conversation, sometimes it's a conversation, sometimes it's just listening, sometimes it's even more like witnessing the whole thing, but these encounters are no longer important in the mass of conversation information, when reality and dreams can no longer be distinguished I
don't know what to say about this work, but one thing is for sure I've been through a long journey and got a lot of information (even if that's only 10% of the volume of conversations in the work) really It seems to be wandering in a dream, but it is not meaningless. Although there is no clear answer, it is like the protagonist in the film who has not been able to wake up from the dream, but it is true that he is no longer afraid, hesitant, and confused...
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