Review of Waking Life

Waking Life (2001)
Prepare to be brainwashed
4 October 2011
Warning: Spoilers
If you look at the animation from a psychiatric point of view, it's excellent - a well-understood method of inducing a semi-hypnotic state in the viewers.

If you look at the script, without the mind-numbing visuals, you get a wealth of impressive-seeming sound-bites from freshman philosophy, without any depth whatsoever.

Put them together, and it'll impress the folks who can't see through it.

Not only do I not recommend this film, I encourage people to avoid it. If you're really curious, at least pause the film every few minutes, get up to counter-act the hypnotic effect of the "animation", and think critically about what you've just heard. If it intrigues you, further study in philosophy will likely be entertaining, as well.
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