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	Waking Life - Rotten Tomatoes
		In order to 'get' Waking Life, you have to think of it less as a movie than as a philosophy lecture that's been animated.
		Although Waking Life is likely to be described as a hallucinogenic, free associative 'trip,' its secret is a very tight structure, and a series of deliberate choices.
		Waking Life" tells us not to be afraid to think the big thoughts, not be dulled by our daily tasks.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/waking_life (860 words)

	Waking Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waking Life is a digitally rotoscoped and animated film, directed by Richard Linklater and made in 2001.
		Long scenes in Waking Life consist of nothing but head shots of characters while they expound on some philosophical idea, sometimes illogically; the characters and their speech are very reminiscent of Linklater's earlier cult classic, Slacker.
		Waking Life Script - Transcript of the entire movie, based upon the first transcript by Tara Carreon, but with numerous revisions and corrections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waking_Life (718 words)

	wakinglife
		“Waking Life” is not a plot or even a character-driven film, but uses a progression of vignettes to celebrate curiosity, imagination, and the act of dreaming.
		Lucky for them “Waking Life” is an ecstatic visual journey as well, using a groundbreaking animation technique in which live images are recorded with a digital camera, then overlaid with all manner of color and imagery.
		But my thoughts on “Waking Life” will change in the years to come; sometimes I’ll say to it “you’re stuffy and pretentious!” and sometimes “you’re brilliant and insightful!” Any movie that can do that must be something special, and especially one so obviously filled with joy about humans being the thinking beasts.
	www.geocities.com /fridaysaturdaymovie/wakinglife (962 words)

	Waking Life. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		WAKING LIFE is a superb work that should be applauded for its atmospheric elements (lovely images of New York and Austin), its amusing bohemian dialogues, and its unique animation.
		He adds that in life everyone is given a box of crayons, some get a pack of eight, others a pack of sixteen, but it's not the pack that matters, rather, how we use it: color outside of the lines, think outside of the box, he insists.
		While our waking life is plagued with apathy, the dream-life we travel through in Waking Life is so full of energy and ideas, and people who are excited about their ideas.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /waking_life.htm (1228 words)

	Waking Life (2001): Reviews
		But even when there's no music playing in Waking Life, the movie's lyricism is sustained by the way it looks and feels.
		Individual artists were assigned their own characters and given free rein -- characters and locations shift on a dime from naturalistic to baroque -- with the result that the movie's formal imagination surpasses and redeems the banal tedium of some of the dialogue.
		Waking Life doesn't leave you in a dream, specifically the dream of Linklater's previous films, so much as it traps you in an endless bull session.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/wakinglife (971 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Waking Life"
		Richard Linklater's animated feature "Waking Life" does tell a story, but it's one made up of a cross-weaving of dream threads, a warp and weft of conversations that make sense sometimes in real-life logic and sometimes only in the shimmery, half-aware logic of our dreams.
		"Waking Life" threatened to drive me crazy both times: The talking often seemed endless, as if I were the one trapped in the lucid dream (an effect that must have been Linklater's intention, at least partially).
		The wordiness of "Waking Life" may drive you mad at times, but I prefer to think of it as a trick, a test, to see how fully awake and aware we are.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/12/04/waking_life/index.html (1403 words)

	Waking Life
		For example, the fact that I can say that "Waking Life", a new tour-de-force from Richard Linklater, is the best film I've seen since "Memento" proves that 2001 has been kind to the film world.
		"Waking Life" is one of the most inventive, lively and exciting movies to come around in a long time.
		"Waking Life" is rated R for language and some violent images.
	bigspeegs124.tripod.com /bigspeegs/wakinglife.html (529 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Waking Life directed by Richard Linklater - reviewed by Sean Patterson
		I’d agree that Waking Life is a love-it-or-hate-it experience: personally I couldn’t stand it and found many other people described it as the worst film they’ve seen in a while The innovative animation technique seems so full of potential and Linklater singularly fails to exploit it.
		waking life was so interesting in that it explores the outer boundaries of analyzing dreams though film and animation.
		Waking Life isn't a film you'd rent from blockbuster, or a film you'd seek action and visual effects.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/waking_life.php (1396 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Waking Life" DVD Review
		A vibrant, animated cousin of Linklater’s debut, Slacker, Waking Life perfectly illustrates the uncertainty of everyday life, while rallying against the dull complacency that is so often the norm.
		Ultimately, that is the tone we are left with after Waking Life, one of hope, the yearning to break with the tyranny of the mundane.
		Waking Life is presented in its original 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen format.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/uvw/wakinglife.htm (727 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Waking Life" review (2001) Richard Linklater, Wiley Wiggins, Bill Wise, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
		Watching "Waking Life" is like eavesdropping on a theoretical discourse between Kierkegaard and Kerouac, while standing in a modern art museum as the paintings come to life and melt into your visual cortex.
		Then in post-production, every frame of "Waking Life" was painted over with wildly vivid, even more abstract, yet startlingly life-like animation that lends the final product a surreal artistic and cerebral vitality that is unique in the history of cinema.
		The animation of "Waking Life" is not a gimmick or an experiment, but a visual extension of the movie's fluid metaphysical state.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/wakinglife.html (903 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Waking Life (2001) - Part III
		Waking Life examines these questions in the framework of a "lucid dream," a term coined by Frederik van Eeden (1860-1932), a Dutch novelist, poet, and practicing physician who studied and classified dreams.
		As Waking Life does not follow a traditional storyline--the vignettes thematically interrelate but are discrete and narratively disconnected from one another--it is difficult to analyzing Waking Life and discuss its influences without a guide to the film.
		Waking Life returns again and again to the idea that reality is no less subjective than dreams, and that there is no difference between the two.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/w/wakinglife3.htm (5511 words)

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		Solomon's monologue hints at the idea of everyday life held by most people, including the postmodernist ideological justification of this life: the idea that we are pushed and shoved by large institutions like corporations and the state, or are trapped in our roles as members of a given sex, race, or religion.
		Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others' presence.
		Waking Life thus does good service not just as a sort of proto-philosophy class for the faint of heart, but also as presenting us with a triad of wake-up calls for the self and its relation to society and the world as a whole.
	publish.uwo.ca /~dmann/waking_essay.htm (7993 words)

	Waking Life
		And dreams are the focus of this stream of consciousness work that takes live action and, with the help of computers and more than 30 animators, converts it into a highly stylish anime that delves into the workings of one young man's sleeping mind.
		Shot on digital video, as is his upcoming film "Tape," "Waking Life" is given a trippy look by art director Bob Sabiston, who led a team of animators each assigned to 'paint' a specific character and segment of the film.
		"Waking Life" is an interesting, thought provoking experiment that doesn't always maintain the lofty heights of its conception.
	www.reelingreviews.com /wakinglife.htm (964 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Waking Life [2002]: DVD: Julie Delpy,Wiley Wiggins,Bill Wise,Caveh Zahedi,Ethan Hawke,Adam Goldberg,Nicky ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The result is a startlingly honest portrayal of the confusion we all face about the difference between life and death, dreaming and awareness, and the unknown as a whole.
		Some might criticise Waking Life for lack of plot or structure but this would be missing the point: Richard Linklater here catches the distorted and disjointed nature of dreams in ways never before acheived or thought possible, at least in any medium I have ever seen, heard, smelled, (other).
		Indeed, perhaps the aim of Waking Life, at least in part, is to stir up such passion in its viewers, since it seems to have left the modern world outside of universities.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Waking-Life-Julie-Delpy/dp/B00007LZ6Q (2026 words)

	Metaphilm - Waking Life
		The overt philosophy in Waking Life is incidental to this dynamic.
		This character tries his best to characterize existentialism as a positive, courageous way of approaching life, but his speech strikes us as compensatory—a more or less desperate attempt, as it were, to find in existentialism a satisfactory world view, a comforting pretext for living one’s life happily.
		Linklater suggests the possibility that the dead might mourn life just as a trapped dreamer might come to mourn his waking life.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=40_0_2_0 (1546 words)

	Waking Life (2001)
		The first time I saw "Waking Life," I liked it, but I felt it moved too slow for me to be very interested in it.
		A few people argue that our waking lives are as real as our dreams, and for all we really know we could be sleepwalking through our waking lives or wake-walking through our dreams.
		It captures life's unpredictable, spontaneous moments with totally vibrant animation, giving it a lively quality that could not be achieved otherwise.
	www.angelfire.com /rock3/big_red/movies/waking_life.html (683 words)

	Waking Life Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Waking Life's unique look was achieved by shooting the film documentary-style with live performers, and then editing the result.
		The differences are that this film has more serious intentions and offers a unifying figure, an unnamed protagonist played by Wiley Wiggins, as opposed to the constantly shifting characters in the director's debut.
		In one sequence, a female character complains that words are inert yet Waking Life suggests otherwise, especially as the word "love" comes animatedly out of her mouth.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=132960 (889 words)

	Review: Waking Life
		Waking Life is clearly an experiment, and, as such, looks and feels much different from anything else recently seen on a movie screen.
		Indeed, Waking Life is comprised of a series of philosophical discussions ranging from how language evolved to the role of the media in modern life to free will & quantum mechanics to the meaning of identity.
		Waking Life certainly isn't for everyone, but, in large part because of its fresh approach and its endlessly fascinating discourses, it ends up staying with you long after the jittery animated images have faded from the screen.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/w/waking_life.html (401 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Waking Life (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Linklater's experimental dream talkie Waking Life is the latest addition to the hall of fame of overrated art films that skate by the content police on the merits of their visual flair.
		In Waking Life, Linklater drops his casual approach — and most of the humor — and adoringly emphasizes the beatific inspiration of his pedagogues, daring the viewer to not be moved by their alleged profundity.
		Perhaps Waking Life's greatest failure, ironically, is its obliviousness to the potential synergy of its style and subject matter.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/w/wakinglife.shtml (738 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Waking Life"
		Richard Linklater's animated feature "Waking Life" does tell a story, but it's one made up of a cross-weaving of dream threads, a warp and weft of conversations that make sense sometimes in real-life logic and sometimes only in the shimmery, half-aware logic of our dreams.
		"Waking Life" threatened to drive me crazy both times: The talking often seemed endless, as if I were the one trapped in the lucid dream (an effect that must have been Linklater's intention, at least partially).
		The wordiness of "Waking Life" may drive you mad at times, but I prefer to think of it as a trick, a test, to see how fully awake and aware we are.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/12/04/waking_life (1406 words)

	Waking Life - Movie Review
		Waking Life is something altogether different, a work of abstract art that recalls Buñuel, Lynch, and Cocteau.
		The film loosely follows the exploits of a young man (Wiley Wiggins) who is faced with the realization that the life that he living is only but a dream, or a series of dreams states with an unknown purpose.
		Linklater’s attempts in answering some of life’s most complex issues are achieved superbly; his conversation pieces even manage to reach plausible conclusions in a short amount of time.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/wakinglife (459 words)

	Waking Life review - Acid Logic ezine
		"Waking Life" is basically "Slacker" on acid with, oddly enough, a more-focused theme, one dealing directly with how we deal with life, how we express who we are, and what the FUCK is holding us back from ANYTHING.
		"Waking Life" is an important film, a relevant film, a must-see film...
		ESPECIALLY right now with the general sleepwalking populous being distracted to the point of hysteria by mass-media-induced fear and to the point of stupidity by the usual barrage of TV sitcoms and talkshows that MIGHT be in par with a 6th grade maturity level.
	www.acidlogic.com /waking_life.htm (937 words)

	DVD Review: Waking Life
		"Waking Life" is arguably the more experimental of the two, not only for the animation aspect, but for the fact that it does also not offer a great deal of plot.
		Even he does not really have much of a story; he remains as the observer to a series of oddballs and intellectuals who discuss the meaning of life and dreams, as well as talk about previous writers and artists who have provided interesting philosophies on who we are.
		Final Thoughts: "Waking Life" is a fascinating and lively film that provides not only visual interest in the unusual and often beautiful animation, but also a lot of thought-provoking discussion of existence.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/wakinglifedvd.html (1260 words)

	Waking Life
		The prisoner is easily the grimmest character in Waking Life, but his appearance and ideas tend to be forgotten in the rush of everything else.
		This is probably too bad, as he brings to the film a sense of life outside granted to folks with leisure time to ponder large questions; he’s got no options but to ponder, and can’t even begin to reflect on his rage.
		Waking Life is as interested in itself as it wants you to be, and pushes the point about film’s shifty status as entertainment and/or art.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/w/wakinglife.shtml (753 words)

	Animating a Waking Life
		In fact, Waking Life feels like an entirely new kind of movie, thanks largely to its innovative hybrid of live action and animation.
		Waking Life's animation was overseen by Austin artist Bob Sabiston, whose software allows animators to use video images as a kind of sketchpad they can draw on.
		Though each minute of Waking Life's raw footage took up to 250 hours to animate, the project was a bargain by Hollywood standards (a Pixar- or Disney-animated feature might cost 10 or 15 times as much).
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,47433-0.html (809 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Waking Life (2001) - Part I
		Waking Life is an unstable, shimmering swirl of images, with furniture and walls and streets in constant motion, almost as if the whole movie is taking place on a boat, or underwater.
		The effect is intentional, of course, because Waking Life is a journey through a dream world.
		There's a scene after the opening titles with a roomful of musicians, whose conductor wants them to play with some vibrato, as if the music were a "little wavy, like it's slightly out of tune." The music they play on their violins, cello, piano, and accordion serves as a fitting soundtrack to the film.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/w/wakinglife1.htm (391 words)

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