Kinan Aljannan Waking life is one of those movies, that in the middle of them you just know that It's the kind of movies that you know you are going to watch over and over again. it handles a bunch of the hardest questions that many intellectual and open minds ask in life, where you seem you have someone to speak with you about some of the ideas that go through your mind. Excellent movie.

jedwiant2 This film is one of the most masterful successes of independent cinema. The scenes move from one to the other in a work of art. The ramblings in the dialogue represents a passion in all existence and their struggle to figure things out.Why am I here? What am I doing? Who will I find? The answer is nobody really knows and there are infinitely many amounts of reasons for why people exist in a certain place and a certain time. Never has a film empowered me by its curiosity and direct dialogue that makes you feel like a part of this "dream" that is someone's life in his dying hours, or his awakening. Existence is eternal.9/10 for the reason that its complex and constant dialogue weighs down the movie midway.

paulg-67221 This film suffers the same problem as Crash (the 2004 film not the Cronenberg film, I haven't seen that yet), every single scene is about the exact the same thing. In this film's case it is philosophy. The concept was interesting but it would have been much better if the filmmakers had just filmed philosophy professors and rotoscoped it in a way to make the footage visually interesting. A massive problem with the film is that characters discuss philosophy and are never heard of again. If you are going to make a film about a single subject and not offer anything else at least make it a short film. Although in Before Sunrise the characters did chat about philosophy, they also talked about love and themselves allowing us to get to know them as people. At least Before Sunrise had a love story (offering more than Waking Life) and was visually interesting because of the location (the rotoscoping in this film looks ugly, the rotoscoping in A Scanner Darkly is much better but still a little off-putting, luckily that film actually has a plot so I can forgive it).I give the film 5/10 because the concept is good and did introduce me to some interesting ideas but sadly the film offered very little else and I don't think I'll ever watch it again. A pity, I wanted to enjoy this film because of Linklater but I couldn't.Edit: I have decided to rate this movie a 3/10. This is because it doesn't feel like a movie, it's just scenes tacked onto one another without much connecting them (if anything). (04/09/2016)

SnoopyStyle A young man (Wiley Wiggins) talks to people he encounters about existential meaning. There are also various other people talking about various things. It's a lot of metaphysical gobity gook. The style of the animation is fascinating and I stayed with Wiggins for the first 20 minutes. It's weird and a cool experimental animation. I could care less about what these people say. It's meaningless and might as well be white noise.Then there is a section with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in bed. They're having a different version of their conversation in 'Before Sunrise'. It's compelling cinema for someone like me who loves that movie. After that, the movie has more gobity gook and it loses me completely. This could be a great style to do with interviews with compelling real world figures. I can imagine this with Dalai Lama or a President. This becomes unwatchable but I'm intrigued by Linklater's dream-like experiment. I only wish his experiment didn't put me to sleep.