Waking Life

Waking Life, a film from director Richard Linklater (The Newton Boys, Suburbia) is less a film and more series of conversations. It takes place within the confines of a dream, where ideas reverberate between people and things make sense while making no sense. This is a film that requires people to pay acute attention to what the actors say on screen. The experience is like listening to people debating philosophy on a college campus. However, the first attention grabber is the animation. Waking Life is a gorgeous film. Linklater filmed the movie on digital camera, then used a team of over thirty animators to animate the film. Each animator was responsible for a character, giving a sense of consistency to each person while providing a huge sense of stylistic diversity between segments. Since this is animation, it allows the freedom to express ideas not just verbally, but visually.

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