I understand it's supposed to be a dream, but I found a lot of the jerky looking animation distracting. Wouldn't they have saved themselves a bundle of money by just using the original footage of the actors? And wouldn't it have been just as good?
shareIf I remember correctly they released the live action version on dvd. I haven't watched it yet but I'm keen to see how different it is.
But the obvious answer is as you stated, to give the film a dream like quality. A second answer might also be to push the film away from the mainstream.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
And wouldn't it have been just as good?
I think the answer to your questions is told in the Holy Moment scene. if a movie is a series of photographs of real people, we watch it and accept it the way it exists. by removing lots of the information from all of these photographs, the film becomes more like a book, we interpret it more, we create the reality in our minds instead of accepting the film-maker's reality.
my theory is that Waking Life is not the telling of a simple story - that much is obvious, and that's one reason why many people don't like it - but rather the telling of YOUR story. The central character is dead, and his dream state is preparing him for this. this film is helping to prepare you for your final dream state.
So.... was that a major SPOILER I just read without it being labeled?
I was trying to read a little about the movie, not be spoiled. Thanks.
thank you for this warning, @stazza.
and seriously, you're on a goddamned movie site, learn some etiquette.
I don't consider that as a spoiler, because there's no proof that the alleged information about this being the guy's last moments is at all correct. That's just one person's interpretation.
The Buddha didn't die after experiencing Nirvana for the first time (or claiming to, at least,) so why would that be necessarily true for the protagonist?
"I don't deduce, I observe."
...jerky looking animation ...
I believe it was done to illustrate the point that we all perceive the world subjectively. To caricature the various characters in the way that we mentally caricature people in our own lives (albeit not to the same literal extent that we imagine them as animated figures).
The segment of the film dealing with memories, and how we do not tend to remember events so vividly that we confuse them with sensory input touched on this.
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I'm Mr. Meeseeks, look at me!
Because if it wasn't animated, it would be 'My Dinner with Andre II'
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now