WAKING LIFE Movie Clip - Just Wake Up (2001) Richard Linklater Animated Indie Drama HD 

I love the subtle joke of how the one who has the closest things to answers is played by the movie’s writer and director Richard Linklater.

This movie is so deep , so inviting and irresistible. The philosophy behind is really brilliant!

Funniest line in the movie: "How do you wake up?" "I don't know, I don't know, I'm not good at that anymore."

Watching that movie as a kid in highschool was just exhilarating.

I watched this movie for the very first time on psychedelics 6 years ago and it absolutely blew my mind. I watched it for a 2nd time on psychedelics last year and it absolutely blew my mind. I reached it a third time just now completely sober and it absolutely blew my mind.

got to see this film in a private theater as a birthday present for a friend. Kid A had recently come out so Everything in its Right Place played before and as the curtain came up. we all took mushrooms and mine was close to an heroic dose. during the film, in my mind, my friends all started mixing together, i couldn’t tell them apart from each other. it seemed like the characters were talking directly to me. the film obviously blew our young college minds (i was 20). it was one of the most incredible movie watching experiences i’ve ever had

Brilliant film. Seeing the ending now, 18 years later, I think the message of the film may have less to do with death than with the idea that youthful philosophising can go from being enriching to being stifling, especially if you never apply it to the hard work it takes to stop pondering and start putting your ideas into action. For the main character, he comes to the realisation that it's better to die than to remain static in a dream of fascinating musings he can do nothing with (because he got hit by a car and is basically waiting to die). But I think the message for the audience is it's better to live into one's adulthood than to remain permanently stuck in a reverie of undergraduate philosophising. Too much pondering and dreaming can soon feel like a prison where one remains stagnant, and fundamentally wastes the unique opportunities that come with being a responsible grownup. Philosophising is wonderful, as long as it doesn't become a "No thank you" to God's invitation to embrace eternity. Part of that embrace is accepting that one must die. But part of it is also accepting that one must first live, rather than merely observe life from a distance, floating from one observation to the next.

The visuals in this movie is just amazing. Each scenery and background shot revives 20 distant surreal memories in my brain.

Watched during a philosophy class! Thanks!

This scene contains real truth. The other scenes are bloviating distraction from egomaniacs. The movie must work this way. In this reality, a core truth is almost always surrounded by a bunch of BS and it's our job to sift through it.

Holy shit im tripping balls

One of my favorites of all time. I will never forget this movie

I just realized Im dead and it's hilarious 😂

The first time I saw "Waking Life", I mean, I was loving it from the start, but when that one guy said what he said about flipping a light switch, that was it for me. I cannot count the times that has happened to me under the exact same circumstances. And it can be traumatic! You know, being stuck in a dream and not being able to wake up, a if there are eyes behind your eyes and then more eyes behind those and they're all yours, but not yours at the same time, because while you can feel the strain you're putting into opening them, it seems as if you don't have the agency to. Maybe that seems a bit mad, but it has happened to little old me many times and the trauma can be real. So yeah, that film was a real trip. It felt like something that could uniquely be a part of one of my own dreams. Solipsism isn't a glittering quality to display and I am not solipsistic at all. But the idea of consciousness preceding the material and that the worlds are dreamed and those dreams are shared is a concept that has kept me mumbling to myself during those alone times and those times one thinks one is alone, but really isn't so much, like a madman. The idea of consciousness preceding the material does make more sense to me. I mean, isn't the material moot, even absurd, if there isn't an observer? And now I'm talking to the internet like a stoner. Far out.

The last scene of him ascending to heaven is his body posture is exact same as Jimmy Stewart dream going down in nightmare in movie Vertigo .

Time is just a constant saying no to God's invitation.

7:52 "I dunno, I'm not very good at that anymore..." I love how infuriatingly vague he is wrapping up the conversation. It's so accurate to dream logic. Normally simple things and conversations becoming cumbersome and inconvenient.

One of these days I want to see the un-animated version of this movie released.

This is what about 450ug feels like

Final scene in the film where he's either (A) finally accepting his own death, or (B) realizing he's helplessly doomed to stay in a The Good Place episode (ie:being fed random philosophy in a surreal painting) for all eternity. It crescendos. And then? RANDY NEWMAN MUSIC! I mean if that's not hell, I don't know what is.

One of my favourite films. It's close to the truth.

Love that the last person that the main character talks to in the film before floating off is the director of the film :V

The Lady Gregory part reminded me of a dream. I existed outside of normal time; the same moment kept happening over and over with these massive gulfs of eternal void between them, and as I travelled through the void towards the next moment there was a question, but I couldnt remember it. And then reality wove together for the moment and the answer to the question was, "No," and as reality un-wound again and I fell back into the void, I felt so sad.

The metaphor is (*cue drum roll); the director (Rick Linklater) is God, and he doesn’t wake up anymore, because he can’t “ he doesn’t do that anymore”, instead he’s too busy telling people with stupid looks on their faces to just wake up to the next life. Also, the pinball that he’s playing is the kid who died, that’s why he told him earlier to be dropped off where he was hit by the car, he was trying to tell him what happened to him. Lastly, notice the pinball stops when the kid said “ I’m staring to think I’m dead”. “Don’t fear the reaper”, we’re already dead. ✌🏽

This is an unforgettable moment where the director himself tries to explain that the main character is likely dead and unable to wake up because of it.

That fuckin Toy Story music at the end just destroyed me hajahajajhaha

This is the life outside the body in the astral world, it feels like that

Death stands before eternity and says only yes. -rilke

Not surprised to see all the hylics in the comments. Whoooooosh to them.

Linklater steps into the dream of his protagonist and toys with him.

Asher! Just wake up…

Lady Gregory was more than a patron of Yeats she was a writer in her own right she adopted Aristotles motto "to think like a wise man but express oneself like the common people" which is interesting bc thats whats going on in this scene & arguably the entire movie

Is the PKD essay real?

Whoa... why haven't I heard of this before now!? And where can I watch the full movie?

Beautiful

Phil Dick essay referenced in the video urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html

This entire movie: Okay so we have dreams right? What if these dreams aren't actually dreams but they're our reality and our reality is actually our dreams but those reality dreams aren't real and are actually dream dreams but we are just dreaming our reality dreams in our dream reality while our entire reality is one big real dream but we can't forget that sometimes our dreams are just that, dreams, and we have to wake up from our dreams into our dream reality just to dream more about our real dreams. (100 minutes of this.)

I have a question... does Anyone know what the musical performance is playing at the end? It is oddly captivating to say the very least..

It's still 50 AD

Incredible movie and scene

Interesting interpretation. It’s something to think about.

I've read the book of Acts and nothing here makes sense at all

So weird. 10 years ago, I had a conversation with someone and they said the exact same thing that you just said. Patty cakes.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Everything in this movie is happening to me. I've been dead for 2 years

Point is, the dude never wakes up. its a symbolic middle finger to the audience. which i dont necessarily disagree with for the sake of art. but it also paints the picture of the whole mindfuck of this movie being very much just an intellectual, philosophical masturbation piece. then again, this is only one of many perspectives.

Wow wow wow

Fantastic

Damn, I basically had that exact dream with a dead old lady. Really changed my perspective on things IRL

These are some seriously Fortean Times that we live in 😏.

´2020

Eternity and chill?

7:55

Stillness

What is the book of acts?

Seimat

5:20

This is the saddest movie I have ever watched. I pray to God that this is not the way our lives end (as depicted at the very end of the movie). I think of my son who died at 19 years of age. Is he now ‘no more’; my son’s existence permanently ended as his last remaining brain cells of conscious thought finally expired as if floating away into "the void of nothingness”-a dot that just disappears? I don't believe that. I can't believe that.

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