Today, I am blogging about the movie called, "Waking Life". It is a movie about a guy trying to understand dreams connection with real life. The movies starts off with him at a young age playing a game with a girl and he picks the number which leads him to the reply "dream is destiny". This sparks an idea in the main character's mind about dreams and reality. The director uses rotoscoping to give the movie a dreamy element.

Max Flesicher invented rotoscoping in 1915 and used it in Koko the clown. Leon Schlesinger Productions which produced Looney Tunes used it occasionally and Walt Disney also used it for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). This cartoony feel to the movie makes it seem less of a serious film and also gives some space for comedy.

                                                                     " I rather be a gear"

This is in Chapter 6 - Free Will and Physics where the real life Philosopher professor  David Sosa is talking about, " trying to solve  the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility, and trying to understand individuallity" ( from wakinglifemovie.net/Transcript/Chapter/6). A lot of people will be very drained by the amount of content and will fall asleep. So what the director does is that he makes the character's faces turn into what they talk about.

"the playing out of subatomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws"

A man is driving down a street and he is very angry about many things.

As he continues ranting, his face turns red with fury.
The scenes are quite disjointed like in a dream and there is no conventional plot.

In the scene above 2 people are talking in a bar and he said "he has not used his gun in a long time and doesnt know if it works. The other guy says why don't you pull the trigger and find out." so the guy dies and the bar tender in the picture gets shot. The splat gives a comic style to this dark scene which turns out to be another dream of the main character.

                                                Can you recognise the 2 characters?

Julie Deply and Ethan Hawke. They acted in the film, "Before Sunrise" by the same director.
Here they play Jesse and Celine who are talking about reincarnation.

I think overall this film is bearable because the rotoscoping makes the film more interesting. The conversations are quite long  and is the most wordy film I have ever seen. My mind was like the main character in the last scene.

I like how the end and the begging of the film mirror each other. This time it is the adult that is floating away.