Waking Life is a digitally enhanced live action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film was Fox Searchlight Pictures' only animated film until 2009's Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The title is a reference to George Santayana's maxim that "[s]anity is a madness put to good uses; waking l...
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Waking Life is a digitally enhanced live action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film was Fox Searchlight Pictures' only animated film until 2009's Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The title is a reference to George Santayana's maxim that "[s]anity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."
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 such as reality, free will, the relationship of the subject with others, and the meaning of life. Along the way the film touches on other topics including existentialism, Situationist politics, posthumanity, the film theory of André Bazin, and on lucid dreaming itself.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their...
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