Waking Life (2001)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Trevor Jack Brooks	...	Young Boy Playing Paper Game
	Lorelei Linklater	...	Young Girl Playing Paper Game
	Wiley Wiggins	...	Main Character
	Glover Gill	...	Accordion Player
	Lara Hicks	...	Violin Player
	Ames Asbell	...	Viola Player
	Leigh Mahoney	...	Viola Player
	Sara Nelson	...	Cello Player
	Jeanine Attaway	...	Piano Player
	Erik Grostic	...	Bass Player
	Bill Wise	...	Boat Car Guy
	Robert C. Solomon	...	Philosophy Professor
	Kim Krizan	...	Herself
	Eamonn Healy	...	Shape-Shifting Man
	J.C. Shakespeare	...	Burning Man

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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