Capo
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Post by Capo on Jan 18, 2007 16:44:01 GMT
Waking Life Richard Linklater 2001 USA A lazy man dreams that he has woken up, and realises, after several disconnected conversations, that he cannot escape this reality. If there are certain films that comprise good scenes which do not add up to much as a whole, then this is perhaps the reverse, comprising throwaway conversations that have, in some elusive way, an accumulative effect in building to an exploration of reality and illusion and the different states of consciousness. It works in some places, it doesn't work in others; the dialogue ranges from the cheap to the profound, from the forced to the natural. It generally gets better as it goes on, which might be telling of Linklater's achievement at replicating dream logic and immersing his viewer into a convincing illusion - the rotoscoping is used freely and effectively without becoming a mere gimmick, since it allows Linklater to add layers into layers and flashbacks into dreams, and to do so in the same visual space, and thus be visually exciting without being narratively confusing.
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