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18 Nov 2007 Waking Life movie review
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Waking Life is the story about a man who is experiencing a series of dreams one after the other. That's the best way to describe it because there isn't really a plot in the movie in the traditional sense. Throughout the movie is a series of shorts that talk about deep, philosophical ideas, ranging from life, reality, consciousness, religion, society, dreams, and many other subjects. You not so much watching a story but more like taking part in a deep intellectual exercise.
And the way movie presents itself can only be described as art. Rather than being traditional video, the movie is essentially hand drawn over each frame of the video to create a cartoon, art experience. This allows for some very artist effects. The scenery shifts and changes, peoples features become exaggerate as they speak, clouds of symbolism appear subtly out of peoples mouths. The whole thing really does look like a dream.
This is not a brain-dead movie that you sit down to and mindlessly enjoy. Yes you can simply observe the pretty colours and movement but then you miss out of so much depth. If you take on board the assault of big words and expressions then you discover a whole world of ideas that, even though you mind not have heard of them often, somehow it makes perfect sense and you wonder why you don't hear it more often.
I really enjoyed watching this movie and I cannot recommend watching this enough. It's one of those things that people should experience at least once. At the end it'll make you think about life in a different way and think "Hmm, maybe I can give this whole 'waking dream' thing a go".
GRAX RATING : 5/5
Posted at: 13:05 PM
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RAZII JINX said on Sunday 2nd of December 2007 at 04:38:25 AM
Where can I partake in seeing this movie? D:
Sounds good.