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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,

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.