Waking Life 2001

No single movie has had a greater impact on my life. I've watched it dozens of times. It engaged my mind when I was struggling with teenage lows and it's re-inspired and tied together life experiences as I'm pushing 30. This is the first movie that perked me up and made me consider that there was actually something timeless and accessible that one could regard as Truth. Across myriad philosophical positions and political roller-coasting, the discussions and topics interwoven here create an artistic expression of the flow of ideas and the pursuit of that boundless and timeless truth. From end to end every speaker, if not many lines, you could dedicate a book to. The questions it raises I've spent hundreds of hours writing and thinking about. I look for the power of voice in everything I watch to in some way affect and root themselves in me like this movie has.

Wow. That was astounding. I’m not quite sure what to think. I liked it but most of the concepts were pretty deep. Not ur afternoon chill sorta movie. But totally worth watching.

I liked all the intriguing ideas and concepts discussed. I’ve thought about a lot of them before but not all of them. It really makes you think and leaves you with a lot to think about.

Btw the animation style of this is very unique. I haven’t seen anything like it. The closest thing I can think of that’s similar is Undone (2019). It explores things similar to this in terms of dreams but also not entirely the same. They’re both worth watching.

One cool thing about this style is it's hard to be critical of it in any way because it's so unique and original.

Anyone else here from Storm by Abakus???

There's no philosophical discussions going in here. This movie seems to be about sketches and super deep philosophical monologs. The animation is unlike anything I've seen though. From an animation perspective this makes for a really good movie.

Excellent art and animation. But while I appreciate the ambition, this movie stinks of pretentiousness and is an absolute slog to get through. I've watched movies that were three or four hours that felt faster than this.

I see that this film has spoken to a lot of people, both online and people I know, so I would still recommend this to people who seem interested in it to see if it speaks to them the same way. At best, it seems like it will change your life and the way to think about everything, and at at worst you waste 90 minutes of your time. It's still a risk worth taking.

Apparently I initially gave this 9/10. But now I realize it deserves 10/10.

Level "Interesting" • 7 :heart: • Entertaining and Good.

I love this movie!