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2001
Waking Life is a 2001 American adult animated surrealist drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism. The series of philosophical discussions at the film's core are processed by a young man who wanders through a succession of…
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What is reality? Do we actually exist? How do we know we're not dreaming? What does it all mean, if anything? Around the time I was twenty, I found these questions of exceptional importance. In fact, they seemed to be THE essence of the whole issue we call consciousness. How come not everyone was talking about them, all the time? Eventually, after going around in circles numerous times without reaching a satisfactor…More
Written and directed by Richard Linklater Escrita y dirigida por Richard Linklater Richard Linklater is responsible for having written and directed films as different as _School of Rock_, the acclaimed _Boyhood_ and the recent _Hitman_ with Glenn Powell and Adria Arjona, and although I saw the first of those three, in my mind and deep in my soul is eternal gratitude to this director for another of his creations that…More
