Waking Life (2001)
1/10
YouTube philosophy on cheap acid
5 November 2022
Ughhh, basically it's to naive to even realise it's not deep enough to be anywhere near as pretentious as it thinks it is.

Just imagine that they gave a bunch of YouTubers some really strong weed and took a clip of each of their best rants, on the meaning of life, got some broke undergraduate art student to cover over it with some cheap cartoon effects and you have this movie.

The trippy cartoon effects also get tiresome veeeeeery quickly, it basically looks like a combo of Bevis and Butthead and some not so good phone app adding some jazzy effects on a loop.

The errrr 'philosophy' isn't backed up or justified with any credibility. It's at the level a really stoned 16 year old me may have pondered in their head, and I'd probably have loved this film then, but if you anywhere remotely past your baby steps into philosophy or self discovery, you'll soon realise this is a bunch of empty gestures to any answers you seek.

And that's basically whose gonna like this film, stoned teenagers and yes by all means watch this, but watch a load of other stuff on this area as well, this is introductory low level stuff, there's better ideas in way more entertaining ways out there.

Anyone older than that avoid. Dawson's Creek's heavy conversations, (that nobody quite understood), were more philosophical than this movie. It's not remotely entertaining and it just reeks of not knowing anything here isn't original and presents it like the fresh ideas it thinks it is.
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