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Animation, Drama, Fantasy 101 min R
Rotten Tomatoes81%Metacritic85IMDb
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself?
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. 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 life.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and cool.
20 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Thrill Chasers.
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Will Richard Linklater’s Rotoscoped film look very dated in a few years’ time? Maybe. But just now it looks like idealistic, and superbly cerebral state-of-the-art moviemaking
Free will versus determinism, dreams versus reality are among the topics addressed by Richard Linklater's witty, "trippy" voyage into the Twilight Zone in which an assortment of characters spout contradictory theories of human consciousness. The technically innovative movie finds the perfect metaphor for t…
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