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Waking Life (2001)
7.5
Ratings: 7.5/10 from 26,156 users
Metascore:
82/100
Reviews: 481 user | 124 critic | 31 from Metacritic.com
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe. Director:Richard LinklaterWriter:Richard Linklater |
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Trevor Jack Brooks | ... |
Young Boy Playing Paper Game
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Lorelei Linklater | ... |
Young Girl Playing Paper Game
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Glover Gill | ... |
Accordion Player
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Lara Hicks | ... |
Violin Player
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Ames Asbell | ... | |
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Leigh Mahoney | ... | |
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Sara Nelson | ... |
Cello Player
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Jeanine Attaway | ... |
Piano Player
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Erik Grostic | ... |
Bass Player
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Bill Wise | ... |
Boat Car Guy
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Robert C. Solomon | ... |
Philosophy Professor
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Herself
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Eamonn Healy | ... |
Shape-Shifting Man
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J.C. Shakespeare | ... |
Burning Man
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Storyline
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries. We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves. Written by Jeff Mellinger <jmell@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Пробуждение жизни See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$88,977 (USA) (21 October 2001) (4 Screens)Gross:
$2,892,011 (USA) (28 April 2002)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Accordion Player: but when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. When I say love the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travel through this Byzantine conduit in their brain...
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Performed by TOSCA
Written by Glover Gill
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Some of the names of candy bars in a store toward the film's end were changed in animation. Hershey's bars become "Hercules", Mentos are now "Memos", and Junior Mints were changed to "Junior Pants". See more »Quotes
Accordion Player: And this is where I think language came from. It came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival, like water we came up with a sound for that[... ]
Accordion Player: but when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. When I say love the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travel through this Byzantine conduit in their brain...
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Crazy Credits
Because almost none of the characters are named, a clip from their appearance is shown during the credits. See more »Soundtracks
"Mi Otra Mitad de Naranja"Performed by TOSCA
Written by Glover Gill
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