Waking Life (2002)Movies

Movies from Film Forum, 11/01/01Viewers seem much more enthusiastic about the spiritual inquiry that takes place in Waking Life. The movie was shot using digital video, then transformed with a revolutionary animation technique with which artists actually "painted over" the footage to create a surreal yet lifelike cartoon. The central character is Wiley Wiggins, who dreams his way through fantastical conversations and debates about spirituality, society, love, life, and the future. Abandoning conventional plots (as he usually does), director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Before Sunrise) fills this film with lifelike conversations between young people. These colorful chats aim to send you home with new questions and a fresh perspective.Critics are exhorting skeptical moviegoers to go and take...