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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: WIGGINS,WILEY EAN: 0024543040651 Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox MPN: 024543040651 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 07, 2002 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Editorial Review: Product Description: A man in a dream state begins to question whether waking or dreaming is the true reality; while on his journey in the dream he meets many interesting characters who talk with him about the meaning of life, perception and human existance. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: R Release Date: 15-APR-2003 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Waking Life is a film that never settles down. Or maybe it never wakes up. Regardless, Richard Linklater's animated meditation seems to strike a perfect balance between the plotless meanderings of Slacker and the unquenchable knowledge-seeking of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Any way you look at it, this is a weird, original movie. As he attempts to figure out what separates dreams from reality, the protagonist (Dazed and Confused's Wiley Wiggins) hears an earful from everyone he stumbles upon. Ramblings range from the scholarly (Linklater's former college professor Robert C. Solomon gives a monologue) to the banal (of which there are plenty). Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Steven Soderbergh, and Adam Goldberg all get animated cameos, basically playing themselves. The dream-centered dialogues eventually grow mind-numbing, but that's OK; the animation steals the show. Each frame of the movie, which was first shot with live actors, was painted over, and the process renders a distorted and trippy collage of sights and sounds. Linklater's film is ultimately quite poignant, but, as with any good journey, you'll need to sit through some fairly tedious moments before reaching the destination. --Jason Verlinde Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Waking LifeWaking Life This movie is surreal. It is captured in real life via a hand held camera, then it was sent to six different artists to create their own style of animation over the live action. The styles are all unique, giving the viewer amazing views of interations between the main character and his many acquaintances in his dream/real(?) world. The animation is the very best visual reprsentation of what I can remember of hallucinations on LSD from 40 years ago. It's amazing. The movie has ... Read More Rating: - Eye opening and artisticThis movie is very well done. The animation is great, I especially liked the way it matched the characters personality. It's cool to see so many different opinions and thoughts on life and existence. Awesome movie! Rating: - What a trip!This is possibly my favorite movie of all-time. The movie is about an adolescent kid who is stuck in a dream he keeps waking up from and navigates his way talking to various people each with deep philosophical outlooks on life. The entire movie was filmed with real people then animated over, which makes it unique. The animation alone makes this movie worth seeing and is going to make you feel like you're on drugs. In the words of a fellow college student "This movie will rape your perception of ... Read More Rating: - Indie GreatnessSo the great Richard Linklater gave us Slacker and Dazed and Confused, but then he gave us this wonderful work of art. I really am not going to say much about the film, but that is extremely fun and well-made, and for the price of the DVD, you almost have to check it out! It will get you thinking.. Rating:  - OriginalMy first thought was that it looked a bit like a university student's final project, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I remember hearing a little of the buzz when this was new. Only a little, since I was living in Asia at the time. But live action was converted to animation through some process. That sounds like a gimmick, but in fact it's an ideal process for this particular story. I don't know what I was expecting when we popped this into the player, since my lovely ... Read More |
