cathcatkate I've watch this film because our professor told us to review this film, The movie of the "Waking life" is one of the most Innovative movies I've ever seen. It has a charm for a new wave of animation films which unfolds the beauty of different existential life questions and somehow resolves some issues. It is a spectacular movie which challenge viewer to think, analyze and to deal with and discuss deeply ingrained issues of philosophy, existence, and thought. This film is Surprisingly good it has a Mind blowing plot, great performances by the actors, great animation and good script.This film still gives me the chills and a blown mind. All I can say is that the director did a pretty good job and deserved a lot of credits.8/10

Anthony Iessi Prepare to check your mind in at the door, make sure it's healthy and clear, and prepare to have it implode on you. Waking Life is the most philosophically engaging film of all-time. It meanders through time and space, and reality and dreams. It questions everything, and I mean, everything. Life, Death, Freewill, Recorded History, Society, Politics, Behaviors.. you name it, Linklater covers it all in a span of 90 minutes. There's so much here, it's just too much to take in. It demands patience, intelligence and repeated viewings. Unfortunately, I think this will only be a one time experience for me. This film is astounding and absorbing in many of its parts, but it asks a lot of your mind to take. I think it was a great decision to animate this in vivid rotoscope, because without it, many audiences would get restless and annoyed. I really admire Linklater as a director, for challenging the way we watch movies, and the way we think about ourselves and others. I'd love to just chill with him one day, and see how well he could pick my brain. He's a genius. I think he understands the world, and humanity, more than I ever will.

prince grover Wonderful and whole new form of animation by Linklater. Filming real people and then making animations is an amazing idea. The animations takes us to another dimension which a typical movie can not do. About the script, very insightful and thought provoking movie. It gives a whole different way of how we perceive ourselves in society and how society thinks about individuals. It has given a few examples of trippy thought experiments. The movie has shed a philosophical light on lucid dreaming. Basically, it has shown 1 hour, 40 minutes of pure philosophy. A good try to cover years of philosophical ideas into few minutes of movie.Linklater has given a lot of real life references and some from his own previous movies.

braddugg A movie that begins with the line "Dream is Destiny" ought to be compelling and thought provoking and so that's what Waking Life is.It's a hugely compelling and thought provoking movie without doubt and it makes us ask very very poignant questions that we have even forgot asking ourselves or anyone around. As we grow and get lost in the crowd we tend to keep away from the philosophy of life and seek only materialistic things, the money, the name, the prosperity while our purpose of existence and purpose of doing something still remains in question. We tend not to do a few things as we grow up due to fear and few things remain undone because of our laziness which essentially means that we are taking life for granted we are becoming complacent and certain of a tomorrow and even tomorrow we might not do it. That's just a part of this movie where i's said. There are many dialogues and of course this movie is nothing but dialogue driven, acting scope is minimal as it's a love action movie that makes you feel at first a bit bizarre coz it's neither animated nor a normal film and we are not used to this kind of presentation. If anything then it's editing and the animation that I restrict the technical departments to with art direction that will help what has to be there in the scene figuring out and all are apt. But I love the dialogue more than anything else. Be it a conversation of a couple, a interview on TV or in theatre, a monologue in jail, they are so prominent and one after another they keep the mind on the run and if there are questions that will run through the mind as we see it as ' what are we doing?,what are we here for? what is life after all?' I never get even for a split second what is the plot of the movie, what is it's story who are the characters and what are their motives, these things are not important here.It's terribly difficult to comprehend what it feels like after watching this movie except that as and when I watch it I just feel so happy and relieved but still questions keep boggling. I am very grateful to Richard Linklater the writer director of the movie for giving this film. It's one of the best gifts I had. It's 5/5 for the most thought provoking movie ever that I saw. I saw it precisely 5 times all my life and will surely watch many more times as this movie has to be experienced and can't be just seen and forgot, you need to keep asking the questions.