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Waking Life
USA 2001, 97 minutes
Dir. Richard Linklater
Rating: [M]
Genres: Cult / Animation, Independent
Topics: Mind-bender, Philosophy.
Feat. Wiley Wiggins
Aroview: A luminous, visually unique reprise of dir. Linklater’s SLACKER, whereby a lone protagonist (Wiley Wiggins) wanders the streets of Austin, Texas encountering various talking heads and their eccentric (scripted) monologues on reality, existence, dreams and the nature of cinema.
Transforming original video-footage into a quasi-cartoon version (using an army of animators), this also wanders through various graphic-styles with startling results, the translation matching the surrealism of the storyline. Congregating these metaphysical streets with many of the cast-members of his previous films (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt), this may be accused of recycling old material, but for most viewers this will be a challenging new experience.
Member Reviews
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3 stars (Good Enough) ~normfilmbuff
2 stars (Good Try) For an animated film, it is heavy on dialogue. This to me, defeats the purpose of animation which is primarily a visual art. If the dialogue doesn't switch you off the animation is worth a look. ~Tubbs
5 stars (Exceptional) This movie is rotoscoped so if you like animation this might put you off. Luckily it's dialog heavy, philosophical, thought-provoking and fun. ~Catapillar
DVD Features
- English subtitles for the hearing impaired
- aspect ratio: 1.85:1
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- Congress, The (2013)
- I Heart Huckabees (2004)
- Mon Oncle D'Amerique (1980)
- My Dinner with Andre (1981)
- Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
- Slacker (1992)
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