Nice try

Lola 2022-01-01 08:02:07

Very rough style, very boring content. This is really something I didn't expect.
Although it is an English film, it has the necessary narration throughout the niche movies-unrelated characters, no context, no basic greetings, just like this one by one directly to the owner. Most of the speeches are about the meaning of life, dream principles, ethical assumptions, philosophical speculation... I tried to keep up with the speaker's thinking at first, trying to figure out the main theme and connection between one person and the other's speech. Later, I gave up completely. I'm basically the protagonist who constantly wakes up and finds himself in another dreamland. All I can do is walk around blankly and pretend to be listening to others.
I later figured out why this theme should be expressed with animation techniques-it was clearly produced by computer special effects after the real person was photographed. Because of the constantly shaking shots and the constantly crisscrossing lines, can they show the meaning of dreams: uncertainty, uncertainty, and uncertainty.
The film is basically challenging the endurance of ordinary people and the experimental proposition of "Can you last until a few minutes before falling asleep". But there is no doubt that those people's rumors are actually full of thought power. Unfortunately, it is the picture, and the picture is in the text, and it is precisely the part that guides others' abstract thinking.
I just want to say to the editors: Nice try.

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Extended Reading
  • Milo 2022-04-23 07:02:43

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  • Ellen 2022-03-20 09:02:01

    Sure enough, it was shot by a real person... In fact, I want to give five stars and deduct one point for the color matching. Although there are many small details of surprises, I still think that the color matching of the animation should require a sense of design more than the real scene. A hodgepodge of speculations such as existentialism/consciousness/dream analysis, etc. I doubted the authenticity of the environment I was in several times before going to bed. I still like this kind of movie that is like sitting across from me and chatting, so Linklater is the favorite nonsense director besides Woody Allen...

Waking Life quotes

  • Guy Forsyth: The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room.

  • John Christensen: Super perfundo on the early eve of your day.