Waking life is the type of film you need to watch over and over, and each time you do, you get something new out of it, you completely missed the first time. He climbs out of bed, splashes water on his face, walks outside and finds himself dreaming again. Actors were filmed in the traditional way and then artists were brought in to animate the footage. This film is thought provoking, and needs your full attention to get the most out of it, it isnt really a film you can half watch. We watch as he progresses through the stages of awakening. The process used to animate waking life has come to be known as interpolated rotoscoping. It uses the phenomenon of lucid dreaming as both device and metaphor. Waking life movie clip just wake up 2001 richard linklater animated indie drama hd duration. It is just a journey by an unnamed main character played by wiley wiggins who wanders through an aliceinwonderlandstyle journey that may or may not be a dream, meeting all kinds of very odd people, many of whom tell him their views on consciousness and the purpose of existence. He walks or levitates from one scene to another, listening to a range of theories by philosophers, intellectuals and crackpots. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the. While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of stephane tv, expounding on the science of sleep in front of cardboard cameras.
Waking lifes inventive animated aesthetic adds a distinctive visual component to a film that could easily have rested. Life and animation come together in director richard linklaters groundbreaking waking life. One of the promo items for waking life is a coloring book. Waking life is above all an exploration of the relationship between the self and reality. Waking life is clearly an experiment, and, as such, looks and feels much different from anything else. In my opinion, its sort of like a recreation of hopping between different peoples dreams, and talking to those people. Something similar was used for the pot noodle tv ads in the uk last year, but with nothing like the ambition and subtlety shown here, and waking life is actually a bit more like a funky american. Waking life 1 hours and 39 minutes movie 2002 dreams. Waking life premiered at the sundance film festival. Streamcloud waking life 2001 deutsch stream german. Selftaught writerdirector richard stuart linklater was born in houston, texas, to diane margaret krieger, who taught at a university, and charles w. Richard linklaters slacker charted out life on the margins, but this animated essay on dreams and reality ventures right off the map.
Though waking lifes characters are sometimes pretentious, the film itself is not. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way. Waking life by richard linklater richard linklater, wiley. If you take a stab at it with your crayons, youll be neatly implicated in the films philosophical subtext. How do i know if my baby is waking up at night because hes. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the american independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Wakinglife vostfr part 1 by dwen collard p on vimeo. The continual, gentle drift of its background helps set a tone of mostly gentle, mostly intellectual play, presenting ideas that engage waking life even while seeming to emanate from another place. Waking life is a 2001 american animated film from director richard linklater. Waking life ost is the official soundtrack of the film waking life.
Waking life is a 2001 american experimental philosophical adult animated docufiction film directed by richard linklater. Waking lifes flexible, nonnarrative approach follows a young man wiley wiggins who arrives in austin and hitches a ride with a stranger, who engages him in a conversation about rarely considered facets of existentialism. 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. Waking life follows the dreams of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. I had to re download it to watch on the tail end of an acid trip a good contender for that time if your headspace is clear enough then decided i had to finally buy it and own a proper copy. As the visitor drifts through the city, he encounters a variety of people and finds himself absorbing their views on art. The movie waking life is a philosophical masterpiece. As device, the entire movie is the dream of the main character, played by wiley wiggins. Waking life 2001 full movie download full hd youtube. Waking life is an animated story about a nameless young man, played by wiley wiggins, who finds himself trapped in a continuous series of dreams. After a short threeyear hiatus, filmmaker richard linklater whose previous outing was the newton boys has returned to the world of cinema with the offbeat and ambitious waking life, an animated excursion through the dreams and philosophical musings of the main character.
The film follows an unnamed young man dazed and confuseds wiley wiggins as he explores the world of his own dreams, a place he now seems unable to escape. Richard linklaters new movie is animated, but the imagery and action are derived from. Waking life 2001 this movie will reach its fingers into your brain and pull out something youve never seen before in yourself. How to know if your baby is waking up at night because they are hungry. Legendas waking life legendas portuguese br 1cd srt pob. Its a really weird movie, and its hard to follow when sober. The movie, like many of the dreams in a night, does not have a. The science of sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsyturvy brain of stephane miroux gael garcia bernal an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. Bob sabiston, the creator of the software dubbed rotoshop and the art director of the film, is an alumnus of m. All tracks except numbers 6 and 9 were composed by glover gill and performed by the tosca tango orchestra. It is hard to say how much of richard linklaters waking life 2001 is a dream. Nominated for numerous awards, waking life won the national society of film critics award for best experimental film, the new york film critics circle award for best animated film, and the cinemavvenire award at the venice film festival for best film.