Waking Life

This was remarkable. I mean such a beautifully unique film. I really liked the experimental storytelling, and the ambiguity of well, just about everything. My theory is that the introductory scene with the boat car was actually real, and he died or was knocked unconscious, moving on as a dream, but there’s plenty of evidence in that scene to suggest that even it was also a dream. I feel like it’s so packed with information that I could probably find more coming back to it, which I intend to do at some point. I feel like it nails the feeling of a being in a dream much better than any movie I’ve seen. I loved the animation too, the way things swayed, the way some things would morph into other things as a scene would go on, and the way things would go between being heavily detailed and hardly detailed at all, all just felt so reminiscent of a dream. Plus there was so much other little details in the animation that just added so much to the experience. I really loved the score, it just added to the dreamlike atmosphere in ways I can’t even use words to describe.  I think what was incredible about this movie that all the philosophical discussions and ideas about existence and dreams, set alongside the very unique animation and score, tapped into a subconscious part of my brain, where even when I wasn’t completely understanding what was being said, I was still entirely engrossed. It’s not a feeling I haven’t had before when watching a movie, but with this one it felt much more intentional.  My only problems with this is that there was just a few conversations that felt a lot less significant than others, two especially that just felt a bit pretentious and not at the same wavelength of most of the conversations in this, and that things could have been a little bit less confusing at the beginning, just so it would be a little easier to grasp what type of film this is.  Anyways my problems for this were very minor, right now I’m feeling a 9/10, but, given time, this could be one that ends up in with an even higher rating and landing in my top 4, because there’s a lot to digest.