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The film is truly special, truly different -- a wondrous talky roundelay about and for people who love life.
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An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing.
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For the battered American independent cinema, Linklater's movie is the highest form of life seen in the last couple of years. [12 Nov 2001, p. 138]
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An astounding, one-of-a-kind movie.
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If there is justice in this world, this is the movie that will get people talking again about the excitement of film.
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While much of the film is as scattershot as life itself, there are a few superb sequences involving lucid dreaming that really get down to business.
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I have seen Waking Life three times now. I want to see it again -- not to master it, or even to remember it better, -- but simply to experience all of these ideas, all of this passion, the very act of trying to figure things out.
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A smart cartoon about the life of the mind. It's about the fuzzy border between dreaming and living. It's thoughtful, provocative, liberating and fun.
100
Not only does this film make you think, it makes you want to think. Few films -- few works of art of any stripe -- can claim that.
100
A collection of interconnected vignettes shot as live-action digital video footage which is then 'fed into' computer animation software, Linklater's latest film is an audacious, ambitious undertaking. There's a surreal yet consistent logic to it, which is the film's biggest accomplishment.
