banana fish Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I watched this not too long ago and really enjoyed it. I thought it would be interesting to know what you gentleman thought was the best part of the movie. I did a search and didn’t find anything on it. But if this has been done or this is totally uninteresting please feel free to close it. I liked this one a lot and this one. It reminded a lot of Searle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Ee9mW9IG8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 It's a good movie. I saw it when it came out so I don't remember the specifics too well, but it was a good existentialist piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 im gonna watch it tonight thanks for the suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Really cool film. Neat little existencialist perspectives tied together with some nice animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seph Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I watched this a long time ago in highschool, I gotta say, I was tripping out really bad and i wasnt even high. maybe the constant outline shaking of the characters through the entire movie messed with my head.. they made a similar one different concept, "A Scanner Darkly", with the dude from the matrix. I recommend both.. also my friend got me to watch this movie called, "Me and You and Everyone we know" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 It is too bad rotoscoping immediately got commodified and turned into a tool for making any regularly filmed commercial more "cool." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 My friends have been telling me to watch this for awhile now, but never got the chance. That ant clip was awesome, she has a nice voice. It kind of goes along with parts of this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCheadle Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 what did you think of the "12 minutes of pure brain activity after you die" (Ethan Hawke speaking on Tim Leary) which could, in a sense be your current existence. and the notion that once an idea is out there, it enters a pool of common consciousness and can be picked out of the air randomly by anyone anywhere. Which would mean that genius is superstition, right? No such thing as intellectual property. good news for the biters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricitySucks Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 this movie does to philosophy what "what the bleep do we know" does to quantum mechanics. i really enjoyed waking life a few years ago. but the more you get into the subjects, the dumber waking life appears to be playing out. the music, for me, is still pretty cool though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 what did you think of the "12 minutes of pure brain activity after you die" (Ethan Hawke speaking on Tim Leary) which could, in a sense be your current existence. and the notion that once an idea is out there, it enters a pool of common consciousness and can be picked out of the air randomly by anyone anywhere. Which would mean that genius is superstition, right? No such thing as intellectual property. good news for the biters. ugh. I wonder what energy consumption in the brain looks like for people with capacities for consistent higher order reasoning, and those that don't... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module X Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 ^haha this movie does to philosophy what "what the bleep do we know" does to quantum mechanics. Right on. I got tired of the half-baked, pretentious existentialism real quick...I couldn't even sit through the entire movie. It just suckers people in with this veneer of "deep"ness. Because of the restrictions of the medium, I think even "intellectual" movies ultimately need to be more visceral than cerebral. A Waking Life failed at that pretty hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana fish Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 My friends have been telling me to watch this for awhile now, but never got the chance. That ant clip was awesome, she has a nice voice. It kind of goes along with parts of this... My co-workers were talking about this drug at work the other day. Something like it occurs naturally in your life twice at birth and death? Thats kinda wild that right out of the womb you start to go through dream like hallucinations. It be interesting to know what an infant is hallucinating since it has no knowledge about the world/people yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Dumielle Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 It's a nice concept, but it's a movie. It's hard for them to put actual deep concepts into something that they can still market(Hollywood is a business). Hence their use of rotoscoping. I respect the movie for it's ability to get people interested in philosophy, and metaphysics, other than that, it's kinda over-rated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ape Shit Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 My co-workers were talking about this drug at work the other day. Something like it occurs naturally in your life twice at birth and death? Thats kinda wild that right out of the womb you start to go through dream like hallucinations. It be interesting to know what an infant is hallucinating since it has no knowledge about the world/people yet. I think you're referring to DMT, Dimethyltryptamine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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