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Waking Life

ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited May 2008 in A Moving Train
Anyone seen this movie of Richard Linklaters? I love it. You'll recognise certain personalities in this movie that resemble people on the M.T - Ahnimus, El-Kabong, Drifting, Roland, e.t.c. He he!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
Plot:A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

Torrent...
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3708616/Waking_Life
'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.'

Edit: Typo in the title. Oops!
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  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    My favorite movie and I was just talking about it a little bit ago with someone. I can't recommend this film enough!!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    one of my favorite movies! i loved it when i rented it when it came out (along w/ tape which came out at the same time and not that bad a film, either)

    have you seen his first film slacker? it lightly touches what waking life gets into and kinda starts off the same (waking life starts off w/ a girl looking at him while he's on the phone, slacker starts w/ him getting into a cab talking about alternate universes and some girl looking at him while he was on the phone and what would've happened if he went up and talk to her?) the criterion collection edition comes w/ some stuff that was before slacker but not widely released like it's impossible to learn how to plow by reading books

    out of curiosity which one was me??

    :)
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    El_Kabong wrote:
    one of my favorite movies! i loved it when i rented it when it came out (along w/ tape which came out at the same time and not that bad a film, either)

    have you seen his first film slacker? it lightly touches what waking life gets into and kinda starts off the same (waking life starts off w/ a girl looking at him while he's on the phone, slacker starts w/ him getting into a cab talking about alternate universes and some girl looking at him while he was on the phone and what would've happened if he went up and talk to her?) the criterion collection edition comes w/ some stuff that was before slacker but not widely released like it's impossible to learn how to plow by reading books

    out of curiosity which one was me??

    :)

    The only films of his I haven't seen are 'Suburbia' and 'The Newton Boys'.

    As for which one resembles you...I was just generalising. I imagine that the above mentioned could fit a number of the characters in the film. :)
    I think my favourite part of the movie is the part Linklater himself plays - the fella on the pinball machine.
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    Byrnzie wrote:
    The only films of his I have'nt seen are 'Suburbia' and 'The Newton Boys'.


    i haven't seen those, either. i saw suburbia in a used record store once on vhs but didn't get it for some reason...
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    El_Kabong wrote:
    out of curiosity which one was me??

    :)

    O.k, well, actually I was reminded of you and Drifting e.t.c during the Alex Jones part. :D
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    El_Kabong wrote:
    one of my favorite movies! i loved it when i rented it when it came out (along w/ tape which came out at the same time and not that bad a film, either)

    :)

    Also, if you like this movie then you'd probably like 'My Education' by William Burroughs. It's his book of dreams that he jotted down over the years. It's pretty amazing. Like, in a dream he'd describe someone he knows, or knew, in life and you can completely relate to it. It's just how you also imagine people in dreams - like how certain core aspects of their personalities come to the surface. He captures the dreamscape in writing about as well as anyone could.
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Also, if you like this movie then you'd probably like 'My Education' by William Burroughs. It's his book of dreams that he jotted down over the years. It's pretty amazing. Like, in a dream he'd describe someone he knows, or knew, in life and you can completely relate to it. It's just you also imagine people in dreams - like how certain core aspects of their personalities come to the surface. He captures the dreamscape in writing about as well as anyone could.


    that book is sitting on my book shelf, probably my favorite burroughs book

    :D
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    El_Kabong wrote:
    that book is sitting on my book shelf, probably my favorite burroughs book

    :D

    Ah, I'd say that 'The Western Lands' is my favourite. But 'My Education' is pretty special.
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Ah, I'd say that 'The Western Lands' is my favourite. But 'My Education' is pretty special.


    i've never read that one. i was always more of a kerouac guy....the subterraneans, the dharma bums, desolation angels....
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    El_Kabong wrote:
    i've never read that one. i was always more of a kerouac guy....the subterraneans, the dharma bums, desolation angels....

    Good documentary here if you haven't already seen it...
    http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3356819/What_Happened_to_Kerouac-_Documentary__amp__Extras
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