August 20, 2009
Very academic, like 97 minutes of animated college philosophy (but without all the homework).
Waking Life
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Waking Life
Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Steven Soderbergh, Timothy Levitch
A boy has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream...( read more
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August 3, 2008Some neat ideas, but a lot of the time I found myself thinking "boy I wish they'd shut up." Kinda makes you feel like you're in high school again, where all your "intellectual" friends were trying real hard to use big words.
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