Waking Life

Waking Life is a first with actors recorded, then completely digitally processed film, the appearance of an animated film is similar (see rotoscoping ). The film was directed by Richard Linklater and was released in 2001. On 4 July 2002 he entered the German cinemas. Since April 2012, he is available anywhere on DVD.

Action

Waking Life tells the story of a young man who dreams. During his dream, he meets many characters who philosophize about free will, about human existence, about the perception of reality, and many other topics. There is also much talk about existentialism and its misinterpretation. While the main character travels through his dream, he notices that he is dreaming and can not wake up. He talks to other characters about lucid dreaming. Throughout the film, it is unclear exactly what is happening with the main character and why he is in this dream.

Genesis

The entire film was recorded with a digital video camera, and then by a team of artists in the computer changed (see rotoscoping ). This process recalls the films of director Ralph Bakshi from the 1970s, with the difference being that Bakshi aimed at the classic cartoon style, while Linklaters process more aimed towards graphic alienation and so far rather some films of the 60s and 70s is similar, their alienation by copying techniques and procedures developed in the film chemistry.

Reviews

Encyclopedia of the International film: Only in the new animated form of overpainted video recordings, this philosophical youth film completed with various reference systems.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: There is no work of animation history that cares so little for the classic negative definition of the profession, which, significantly, is by Max Fleischer: "If it can happen in real life, then it is not a cartoon. " Everything " Waking Life " tells can happen in real life. More than that: what happens in this film, each has happened before. His protagonists entertain a hundred minutes of life and death, they develop their individual approaches to the human condition, often banal, sometimes profound, in monologues or dialogues, on movie screens and on TV, in the pub or in bed.

Awards

The film was nominated for many awards, mainly because of its technical characteristics. Waking Life won the National Society of Film Critics Award for having the "best experimental film ," the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Animated Film " and the CinemAvvenire Award at the Venice Film Festival for " Best Film". The film was also nominated for the Golden Lion, the main distinction of this film festival. For the Online Film Critics Society Awards, the film was nominated for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Shrek - defeated The daring hero.

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