
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Richard Linklater goes off-kilter with his sixth film Waking Life Without a linear plot line stable images & offering the kind of conversations you normally only find in a University seminar it&s clear that Linklater--despite his commercial success with independent films--is determined not move into the mainstream By taking Wiley Wiggins away from his Dazed & Confused life into a dream which has no structure & flitting from one philosophical question to another Linklater presents a filmic discussion into the nature of physical awareness consciousness & unconsciousness that most surrealist artists would be proud of However Linklater goes one step further & removes all notions of the real world by filming the actors then transferring them into animation employing 31 artists to input their vision onto the film The result is a startlingly honest portrayal of the confusion we all face about the difference between life & death dreaming & awareness & the unknown as a whole All the characters Wiggins meets seem to have their own thesis on the unknown just as in life we are all aware or feel differently about our own self In addition there are discussions regarding film as a dream-like form with theorists aligning the sensation of watching a film to that of dreaming taking your own consciousness into the lives of others This is what makes Waking Life such a brave & well-structured film By breaking down the barriers of narrative & reality Linklater has probably made one of the most realistic films in recent history