Waking Life
Waking Life
R | 19 October 2001 (USA)
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Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Reviews
NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!
Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Mike Bozart I always hoped to see a weaving, quasi-psychedelic, meta-real, surreal animated film that pondered the big existential questions, and this film nails it ... or, maybe the better word would be - envelop. This was one thoroughly satisfying 99 minutes of screen watching. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like your brew extra-spatial, this is for you. Enjoy.
Kinan Aljannan Waking life is one of those movies, that in the middle of them you just know that It's the kind of movies that you know you are going to watch over and over again. it handles a bunch of the hardest questions that many intellectual and open minds ask in life, where you seem you have someone to speak with you about some of the ideas that go through your mind. Excellent movie.
jedwiant2 This film is one of the most masterful successes of independent cinema. The scenes move from one to the other in a work of art. The ramblings in the dialogue represents a passion in all existence and their struggle to figure things out.Why am I here? What am I doing? Who will I find? The answer is nobody really knows and there are infinitely many amounts of reasons for why people exist in a certain place and a certain time. Never has a film empowered me by its curiosity and direct dialogue that makes you feel like a part of this "dream" that is someone's life in his dying hours, or his awakening. Existence is eternal.9/10 for the reason that its complex and constant dialogue weighs down the movie midway.
DarioRauth10 I always go down with the quote of Toni Morrison: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." It perfectly fits with "Waking Life". Richard Linklater did an amazing job by putting all the pieces of this giant philosophical puzzle, in the correct order, and gave birth to a masterpiece. I totally enjoyed it! I'd like to watch another movie(this time not as an animation),with philosophical scripts and daring ideas, of many other philosophers who were not mentioned in this work of art, to explore even more the brilliant question that has many answers but non of them true(because there is not one): "What is the meaning of life?" If I were a director, it would be one of my goals. 10/10