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May I recommend a movie directed by Linklater called Waking Life. > Waking Life is a 2001 American experimental philosophical adult animated docufiction film w

May I recommend a movie directed by Linklater called Waking Life. > Waking Life is a 2001 American experimental philosophical adult animated docufiction film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.[3] It is centered on a young man who wanders through a succession of dream-like realities wherein he encounters a series of individuals who engage in insightful philosophical discussions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life

DonHopkins 6y ago
Walking Life is mentioned in "10 Great Movies That Owe a Deep Debt to Philip K. Dick": https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/g2691/movies-inspired-by-philip-k-dick/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/g2691/movies...
- perfmode 6y ago
  wow! had no idea his work ran through all of these. thanks for sharing this.
pmoriarty 6y ago
I'd recommend Linklater's Slacker over Waking Life... I liked the former way, way more than the latter. Waking Life did have some amateur philosophizing in it, and maybe had some PKD influence to it, but at best it was PKD-lite.. I found it more annoying than anything, due to the endless stream of characters in it that sound like they're trying to be incredibly profound, but they're really not. Slacker doesn't take itself nearly as seriously, so is much more successful with its own cast of weird characters.
- perfmode 6y ago
  > endless stream of characters in it that sound like they're trying to be incredibly profound i fell in love with this piece of art a decade ago. then there was a five-year period during which I felt the same way about the film myself. i would have agreed with this statement. but in this past year, attending meditation retreats and interrogating my metaphysics, my perspective shifted once more. it’s very much been thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

DonHopkins 6y ago

Walking Life is mentioned in "10 Great Movies That Owe a Deep Debt to Philip K. Dick": https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/g2691/movies-inspired-by-philip-k-dick/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/g2691/movies...

perfmode 6y ago
wow! had no idea his work ran through all of these. thanks for sharing this.

pmoriarty 6y ago

I'd recommend Linklater's Slacker over Waking Life... I liked the former way, way more than the latter. Waking Life did have some amateur philosophizing in it, and maybe had some PKD influence to it, but at best it was PKD-lite.. I found it more annoying than anything, due to the endless stream of characters in it that sound like they're trying to be incredibly profound, but they're really not. Slacker doesn't take itself nearly as seriously, so is much more successful with its own cast of weird characters.

perfmode 6y ago
> endless stream of characters in it that sound like they're trying to be incredibly profound i fell in love with this piece of art a decade ago. then there was a five-year period during which I felt the same way about the film myself. i would have agreed with this statement. but in this past year, attending meditation retreats and interrogating my metaphysics, my perspective shifted once more. it’s very much been thesis, antithesis, synthesis.