Waking Life

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

First that by the end of the film really only 2 or 3 are relevant to the films plot, the rest are just a sort of intellectual window dressing – interesting to be sure, but the discussion of the ontology of film didn’t really advance the story much (though it was cleverly countered through the use of animation).

I think I had the advantage of forknowledge that there was very little story to this movie, that it was more about loosely connected ideas. Linklater himself admits that the movie severd as a catch-all for things he just couldn't fit into his other films for whatever reasons.

What also helped was the pause in the middle for a 30 minute discussion with our friend about the nature of dreaming. Even though I disagreed with a lot of the angles the movie took, I was most pleased with the lines of thought it triggered.