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Waking Life is a digitally manipulated film, similar to an animated film, directed by Richard Linklater and made in 2001. The entire film was shot using standard film and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame.
In a broad scope, Waking Life is about a young man in a dream state. During his dream he encounters many characters who philosophize about free will, human existence, perception, reality, and many other topics. There is a large amount of speech done on the topic of existentialism and the misconceptions that are commonly held about it. As the main character travels through his dream he eventually comes to realize that he is dreaming (see lucid dreaming), and that he cannot wake up. Throughout the movie, it is unclear what is happening to the main character and why he is in this dream, among possible explanations is that he is dead.
There is much discussion of existentialism and lucid dreaming. Every coffeeshop conversaion, good or bad, that you have overheard or been a part of on these subjects is represented in this film
Waking Life has a unique visual style, in that it was filmed in live action, then rendered into animation on a Apple Macintosh computer. This animation technique is known as rotoscoping. The program used to do this was created specifically for the movie, and has the effect of making the visuals more surreal.
Nominated for numerous awards mainly for its technical achievements, Waking Life won the National Society of Film Critics award for "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". Waking Life was also nominated for the Golden Lion, the festival's main award.
The film's soundtrack, all of it performed and written by Glover Gill and the Tosca Tango Orchestra , except for one track written by Frédéric ChopinFrederic-Francois Chopin ( March 1, 1810 October 17, 1849) is widely seen as the greatest of Polish composers and the very greatest of composers for the piano, the instrument for which he wrote almost exclusively. He was born as Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, has also been quite successful (especially for a non hit-driven soundtrack). Featuring the nuevo tangoNuevo tango or Tango nuevo is a form of music, which was born as elements of jazz and classical music were incorporated into traditional Argentinian tango. The most important composer of this style is Astor Piazzola, who revolutionised tango with new form style, it bills itself the 21st Century Tango .
1 See also
- Dream artDream art is any form of art directly based on material from dreams, or using dream-like qualities. History References to dreams in art are as old as literature itself: the story of Gilgamesh, the Bible, and the Iliad all describe dreams of major characte
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