RFD: Waking Life

Oh man, I wanna see it. On the "name dropping" section of its web site though I noticed that while many philosophers and other thinkers are referenced, there are no psychologists listed. I can understand wanting to avoid the Freudian stuff, but no Jung, or Hall, or, especially no Medard Boss?! What a gaping hole in a movie all about talking about dreams.

come now whats all this about?

Richard Linklater's new film. Is he now the Ralph Bakshi of our time?

I really thought it would have been better as a silent movie: it looked bee-yoo-tee-full but the dialogue just sort of dragged after a while.

The colour-spilling animation is gorgeous. The score is well- suited. The dreams-within-dreams sequencing is nice. The philosophizing didn't really transcend the kids-on-spare level but the film takes you in by the end.

Remind me again who Ralph Bakshi is.

Has anyone watched Slacker recently? It was my favourite movie when I was 16. I wonder how it holds up.

I'm no animation buff, but I think Ralph Bakshi is the guy who did the (first) Lord of the Rings movie--his technique was rotoscoping, which, as far as I understand it, basically involved drawing over photographic images to produce weirdly lifelike animation. Has anyone seen his rock and roll opus? It was rereleased on video a couple years back and looked interesting, but I never got around to renting it.

Oh, Waking Life, what? Visually dazzling, right, no doubt, but the dialogue was a lot of ponderous twaddle. And for a film that was supposed to be all about dream life, it was incredibly asexual. I don't know, I saw it the day after I saw Mullholland Drive, so anything putatively dream-y was bound to pale in comparison.