Lights, Camera, "Action"!
So I just watched the film Waking Life by Richard Linklater (who also directed Dazed and Confused, and A Scanner Darkly. The cinematographic style of the film is this outrageous type of animation, where images are filmed as normal, digitally, then each frame is drawn over by a plethora of artists, each adding their own unique style to whatever segment they happen to be working on. It was beautiful.
The story itself was very interesting. It stars Wiley Wiggins, whom you may know from Dazed and Confused, as a young man simply wandering along having existential conversations with all the people he meets. The topics of these discussions range from free will, to nature of reality, to consciousness, to film theory, to any number of other things. The whole thing is very nonlinear, and I like that about this film. At no one point is anything really explained, and the movie lacks the standard "introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion" structure, and instead opts for something plenty more esoteric. There really is no plot, just a series of conversations, and the only real conflict is very subtle, allowing the viewer instead to muse on the ideas presented between the characters, and simple admire the very interesting animation style.
There's also a beautiful soundtrack by the Tosca Tango Orchestra.
Good movie, go see it.
And also, don't see Idiocracy. Its not as good as Waking Life. And I want that hour and a half of my life back.
The story itself was very interesting. It stars Wiley Wiggins, whom you may know from Dazed and Confused, as a young man simply wandering along having existential conversations with all the people he meets. The topics of these discussions range from free will, to nature of reality, to consciousness, to film theory, to any number of other things. The whole thing is very nonlinear, and I like that about this film. At no one point is anything really explained, and the movie lacks the standard "introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion" structure, and instead opts for something plenty more esoteric. There really is no plot, just a series of conversations, and the only real conflict is very subtle, allowing the viewer instead to muse on the ideas presented between the characters, and simple admire the very interesting animation style.
There's also a beautiful soundtrack by the Tosca Tango Orchestra.
Good movie, go see it.
And also, don't see Idiocracy. Its not as good as Waking Life. And I want that hour and a half of my life back.