WAKING LIFE Movie Clip - Just Wake Up (2001) Richard Linklater Animated Indie Drama HD

[@randomvicky939]

This movie is so deep , so inviting and irresistible. The philosophy behind is really brilliant!

[@wickedlywicked6925]

I love the subtle joke of how the one who has the closest things to answers is played by the movie’s writer and director Richard Linklater.

[@SandeepGuptaDoc]

Yes apparently this is a gnostic theme. The director himself comes on to give the ultimate message.

[@scammin4pigham150]

I watched this movie for the very first time on psychedelics 6 years ago and it absolutely blew my mind. I watched it for a 2nd time on psychedelics last year and it absolutely blew my mind. I reached it a third time just now completely sober and it absolutely blew my mind.

[@hansfrankfurter2903]

Watching that movie as a kid in highschool was just exhilarating.

[@joe1hundred]

got to see this film in a private theater as a birthday present for a friend. Kid A had recently come out so Everything in its Right Place played before and as the curtain came up. we all took mushrooms and mine was close to an heroic dose. during the film, in my mind, my friends all started mixing together, i couldn’t tell them apart from each other. it seemed like the characters were talking directly to me. the film obviously blew our young college minds (i was 20). it was one of the most incredible movie watching experiences i’ve ever had

[@TimeTravelinc]

joe hundertmark You dear sir, had some sort of Meta event. A event where you (the main viewer) interact to the characters who jump out of the their world to talk to the viewers. Strange things is, is that we’re all characters in a movie, a dream, a story. As Shakespear’s characters said, “All the world’s of stage, all of us are character’s upon the stage.”

[@zackcolbourne6921]

And they say white people don't have culture...

[@vapr-n00d1]

"Heroic dose" - As Terence McKenna would say?

[@marcoantonioleautaud5519]

Yesterday I woke up sucking a Lemon... and also cut the kids in half...

[@JoshHewett]

How am I in awe and fascination with your story while simultaneously slightly envious of your experience. Sounds amazing. 🙏👁💚

[@FunkSoulBrother7]

The visuals in this movie is just amazing. Each scenery and background shot revives 20 distant surreal memories in my brain.

[@brianzayman2228]

Funniest line in the movie: "How do you wake up?" "I don't know, I don't know, I'm not good at that anymore."

[@andrewbest5854]

Not sure if that's funny, or profoundly disturbing.

[@jamesburgess3734]

@@andrewbest5854 Did you hear Robin Williams was well hung? Man, that whole Cosby thing was a bitter pill to swallow. Love gallows humor.

[@MakoSucks]

i think it was a way of startling him awake. Like I can wake you up, but I can't tell you I'm going to otherwise you won't wake up, cuz he suddenly just says if it's that easy, than just... WAKE UP. and boom it worked. kinda.

[@crissysims4357]

He can't tell the kid bcoz the kid doesn't know how and the man is only part of the kids mind

[@theplanetruth]

Agreed

[@gregscorzo1990]

Brilliant film. Seeing the ending now, 18 years later, I think the message of the film may have less to do with death than with the idea that youthful philosophising can go from being enriching to being stifling, especially if you never apply it to the hard work it takes to stop pondering and start putting your ideas into action. For the main character, he comes to the realisation that it's better to die than to remain static in a dream of fascinating musings he can do nothing with (because he got hit by a car and is basically waiting to die). But I think the message for the audience is it's better to live into one's adulthood than to remain permanently stuck in a reverie of undergraduate philosophising. Too much pondering and dreaming can soon feel like a prison where one remains stagnant, and fundamentally wastes the unique opportunities that come with being a responsible grownup. Philosophising is wonderful, as long as it doesn't become a "No thank you" to God's invitation to embrace eternity. Part of that embrace is accepting that one must die. But part of it is also accepting that one must first live, rather than merely observe life from a distance, floating from one observation to the next.

[@astarshineson]

Greg, I completely agree with your observation.

[@dariapendergast6773]

Interesting point of view, Greg. Thanks:)

[@Henrydingus01123]

Over thinking over analyzing separates the body from the mind

[@joshuablay5954]

late ra lus!

[@thefractalcurve5462]

That is an excellent observation. It explains what every slacker and loudmouth doesn't know. That if you really want to be impactful in this life, you have to walk the walk of what you talk. Takes more strength and courage than one imagines.

[@quantumofconscience6538]

This scene contains real truth. The other scenes are bloviating distraction from egomaniacs. The movie must work this way. In this reality, a core truth is almost always surrounded by a bunch of BS and it's our job to sift through it.

[@theplanetruth]

Hey, Matt. Great to see you here. Have you done a show on this movie?

[@charlieinslidell]

This is an unforgettable moment where the director himself tries to explain that the main character is likely dead and unable to wake up because of it.

[@patrickn8355]

Time is just a constant saying no to God's invitation.

[@thegreatsatan288]

How about........NOW?

[@alecaquino4306]

That's lame lol

[@starwinksbackfromtheskypit6790]

I’ve always thought that even as a kid so seeing this is almost my “book of Acts”. Far out

[@Credemis]

@@alecaquino4306 not if you understand that nothing couldn’t not exist unless it didn’t exist in relation to something that did

[@alecaquino4306]

@@Credemis Nope. Still lame.

[@MrPhyxsyus]

One of my favorites of all time. I will never forget this movie

[@markwarrensprawson]

The first time I saw "Waking Life", I mean, I was loving it from the start, but when that one guy said what he said about flipping a light switch, that was it for me. I cannot count the times that has happened to me under the exact same circumstances. And it can be traumatic! You know, being stuck in a dream and not being able to wake up, a if there are eyes behind your eyes and then more eyes behind those and they're all yours, but not yours at the same time, because while you can feel the strain you're putting into opening them, it seems as if you don't have the agency to. Maybe that seems a bit mad, but it has happened to little old me many times and the trauma can be real. So yeah, that film was a real trip. It felt like something that could uniquely be a part of one of my own dreams. Solipsism isn't a glittering quality to display and I am not solipsistic at all. But the idea of consciousness preceding the material and that the worlds are dreamed and those dreams are shared is a concept that has kept me mumbling to myself during those alone times and those times one thinks one is alone, but really isn't so much, like a madman. The idea of consciousness preceding the material does make more sense to me. I mean, isn't the material moot, even absurd, if there isn't an observer? And now I'm talking to the internet like a stoner. Far out.

[@power50001562]

Watched during a philosophy class! Thanks!

[@steeloo4750]

i watched in philosophy class as well. great movie

[@ThoughtProvokingVlogs]

Hmm interesting, I actually watching this in my hs art class

[@onewhitetiggr]

I forget what class I watched this in because my teacher for that class didn’t exactly follow the school curriculum but graded us on one essay every Friday that could be about anything as long as there was a point to be made at the end and any that he liked would be read to the entire class, probably was history or something

[@RocketKirchner]

The last scene of him ascending to heaven is his body posture is exact same as Jimmy Stewart dream going down in nightmare in movie Vertigo .

[@jpants5144]

Raptured

[@lundylow]

7:52 "I dunno, I'm not very good at that anymore..." I love how infuriatingly vague he is wrapping up the conversation. It's so accurate to dream logic. Normally simple things and conversations becoming cumbersome and inconvenient.

[@eduardhsia5337]

Holy shit im tripping balls

[@johngerity]

Final scene in the film where he's either (A) finally accepting his own death, or (B) realizing he's helplessly doomed to stay in a The Good Place episode (ie:being fed random philosophy in a surreal painting) for all eternity. It crescendos. And then? RANDY NEWMAN MUSIC! I mean if that's not hell, I don't know what is.

[@wickedlywicked6925]

john gerity That class must’ve been the best class, ever. Consider yourself lucky.

[@Theomite]

One of these days I want to see the un-animated version of this movie released.

[@elephant3109]

true. but the le auteur would want their works as is. even if we wished, we cant.

[@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone]

So release it then

[@TheDreamer452]

Well theres 12 mins of footage unedited just search it on KZbin

[@IndieFic]

I imagine its a bunch of green screen and some footage

[@TheDreamer452]

______________ no its all shot on location just type waking life bts

[@TinFoilHot]

I just realized Im dead and it's hilarious 😂

[@haddadman9053]

Am I dead?

[@kongweiying3892]

What do you mean by this exactly? I feel like I'm close to understanding but there's some missing piece

[@patrickn8355]

@@kongweiying3892just wake up.

[@joshuacox5854]

This is what about 450ug feels like

[@starwinksbackfromtheskypit6790]

The metaphor is (*cue drum roll); the director (Rick Linklater) is God, and he doesn’t wake up anymore, because he can’t “ he doesn’t do that anymore”, instead he’s too busy telling people with stupid looks on their faces to just wake up to the next life. Also, the pinball that he’s playing is the kid who died, that’s why he told him earlier to be dropped off where he was hit by the car, he was trying to tell him what happened to him. Lastly, notice the pinball stops when the kid said “ I’m staring to think I’m dead”. “Don’t fear the reaper”, we’re already dead. ✌🏽

[@starwinksbackfromtheskypit6790]

@Jim From Softball cool, I’m at the hipster coffee shop all day until I float away. Life is a dance, and I call it “Limbo”.

[@theplanetruth]

Huh. I like this. 🙏

[@Neon_White]

The Lady Gregory part reminded me of a dream. I existed outside of normal time; the same moment kept happening over and over with these massive gulfs of eternal void between them, and as I travelled through the void towards the next moment there was a question, but I couldnt remember it. And then reality wove together for the moment and the answer to the question was, "No," and as reality un-wound again and I fell back into the void, I felt so sad.

[@colinellesmere]

One of my favourite films. It's close to the truth.

[@colinellesmere]

Spot on.

[@topformfitness]

Whoa... why haven't I heard of this before now!? And where can I watch the full movie?

[@sianspherica]

You can rent it on KZbin.

[@JoshHewett]

@@sianspherica Thanks! 👍

[@monizakkour6466]

There is another link just put full movie, the audio isn't great, but is possible to understand. I am looking for the assay he mentioned by Philip Dick, about the book flew my tears, the policeman said.

[@jackyjones8873]

Internet Archive has uploaded it too

[@jamesburgess3734]

@@monizakkour6466 woah, Phillip K. Dick had an assay? I didn't even know he was a scientist! Seriously would love to read it, too.

[@kellyja8]

Linklater steps into the dream of his protagonist and toys with him.

[@danilasad]

This is the life outside the body in the astral world, it feels like that

[@JODOROWSKY51]

Asher! Just wake up…

[@faceofdoomness]

Love that the last person that the main character talks to in the film before floating off is the director of the film :V

[@boscorner]

Death stands before eternity and says only yes. -rilke

[@danford4275]

This entire movie: Okay so we have dreams right? What if these dreams aren't actually dreams but they're our reality and our reality is actually our dreams but those reality dreams aren't real and are actually dream dreams but we are just dreaming our reality dreams in our dream reality while our entire reality is one big real dream but we can't forget that sometimes our dreams are just that, dreams, and we have to wake up from our dreams into our dream reality just to dream more about our real dreams. (100 minutes of this.)

[@theplanetruth]

This was golden. 😂

[@kronkite061]

You forgot the BEST thing it has is Alex Jones! But for real, the soundtrack is awesome, there are some insightful guests who discuss substances such as biblical stories and quantum mechanics. 1000 years of Waking Life! Whoooo!

[@ScottFioreAP]

This sounds exactly like Linklater in his other film called slacker where he’s in a taxi and mentions the words dream and reality more than any other words 😂

[@hardjuan2587]

That fuckin Toy Story music at the end just destroyed me hajahajajhaha

[@ansuz444]

Not surprised to see all the hylics in the comments. Whoooooosh to them.

[@swamijlove]

Beautiful

[@ryang3010]

I have a question... does Anyone know what the musical performance is playing at the end? It is oddly captivating to say the very least..

[@keigofurnival8275]

Ballade 4 Part 2 by Tosca Tango Orchestra

[@bodie12333]

@@keigofurnival8275 Thank you, you're awesome. Because I never would've figured that out by myself.

[@MrLGD1234]

Is the PKD essay real?

[@daremate6370]

MrLGD1234 yes, it’s called how to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later.

[@kieleleron85768]

Lady Gregory was more than a patron of Yeats she was a writer in her own right she adopted Aristotles motto "to think like a wise man but express oneself like the common people" which is interesting bc thats whats going on in this scene & arguably the entire movie

[@DawnOfTrueSteel]

Point is, the dude never wakes up. its a symbolic middle finger to the audience. which i dont necessarily disagree with for the sake of art. but it also paints the picture of the whole mindfuck of this movie being very much just an intellectual, philosophical masturbation piece. then again, this is only one of many perspectives.

[@patrickn8355]

Sure. That's the entire point of the movie. You can either spend the whole time scoffing at the self absorbed content, or think about the conversations and engage yourself.

[@niemah.8199]

Interesting interpretation. It’s something to think about.

[@311Essie]

I've read the book of Acts and nothing here makes sense at all

[@RavenWolf515]

Phil Dick essay referenced in the video urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html

[@dre2391]

It's still 50 AD

[@hernandovasquez6825]

I came here because the directors of this film are the same ones who made a video for the song Frijolero

[@streetdreamz210]

What is the book of acts?

[@TheAlchemist1089]

A part of the Bible

[@LgandFriendz]

Fantastic

[@niemah.8199]

So weird. 10 years ago, I had a conversation with someone and they said the exact same thing that you just said. Patty cakes.

[@olsonbryce777]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Everything in this movie is happening to me. I've been dead for 2 years

[@timefragment5387]

7:55

[@thegreatsatan288]

Eternity and chill?

[@dogbackwards33]

ha

[@martyknox2218]

These are some seriously Fortean Times that we live in 😏.

[@ya8679]

Wow wow wow

[@pineapplaplatypotato]

Stillness

[@Loocianum]

´2020

[@smokyprogg]

Damn, I basically had that exact dream with a dead old lady. Really changed my perspective on things IRL

[@Elias-iq2mn]

care to share some details

[@smokyprogg]

@@Elias-iq2mn Sure. I had a dream where I was talking with a woman. At one point she slapped me in the face and told me I was in a dream. She went on about how there was a full community of these dream entities, and that they basically view our physical reality in the same way we view dreams (as "not real" for lack of a better term) Eventually, she went on to say that she was the immortal spirit of St. Joan of Arc and recounted a number of details from her life. Now, I had never heard of Joan of Arc other than she was some French girl, but I woke up and looked up all these details that I couldn't have possibly known prior and they were all true! I have absolutely no explanation for this beyond Linklater's quote from the movie of "that wasn't a dream, it was a visitation to a real place"

[@Elias-iq2mn]

@@smokyprogg Fascinating

[@ivobo6227]

@@smokyprogg I recently had a dream which involved my dead grandpa and grandma, it felt just like chilling with them while they where alive, until I realized that my grandpa was basically looking like a zombie, yellow eyes, shrivelled up skin, mouth constantly open. I began talking to him watching him directly in his eyes trying to understand what was wrong, until the reality of the situation hit me and with it...the smell of a dead mans breath. It made me physically puke in the dream, I immediately said I was sorry and then realized where I was...visiting the land of the dead. Or...you know...at least that is how I interpreted it and immediately thought of this scene with Lady Gregory puking...

[@bodie12333]

@@smokyprogg wow, that's really wild.

[@JacobTremblayAndTheMultiverse]

Seimat

[@rubenhayk5514]

😴😴😴

[@vikingz2000]

This is the saddest movie I have ever watched. I pray to God that this is not the way our lives end (as depicted at the very end of the movie). I think of my son who died at 19 years of age. Is he now ‘no more’; my son’s existence permanently ended as his last remaining brain cells of conscious thought finally expired as if floating away into "the void of nothingness”-a dot that just disappears? I don't believe that. I can't believe that.

[@mohammadreza7265]

I wish you peace and patience from God. You have suffered a great hardship. I assure you it is not, your son is now in the cycle of life (not just in this world). The final answer lies in this sequence of the film, we say no so much, that we say yes to each other in a timeless moment. But our answer of no is also wisdom and the purpose of creation. We were created to experience and find each other and unity. Sorry for my bad English.

[@emilio6891]

5:20