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The "Waking Life" Thread
« Thread Started on Jun 9, 2004, 4:08pm »

I figured since a lot of people on here talk about Waking Life quite often, I decided to create a thread where we can discuss all aspects of the film.

What ideas/thoughts in the movie appealed to you the most?

For me, one of the discussions that intriqued me the most would have to be the blonde woman who talks about words being only symbols, or "dead":

"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration, and this is where I think language came from. It came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy, when it was just simple survival, like you know...water, we came up with a sound for that, or sabre-toothed tiger right behind you!, we came up with a sound for that. But, when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is frustration? or what is anger? or love? When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying, and they say "Yes, I understand," but how do I know they understand? Words are inert; They're just symbols; They're dead. You know? And, so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed; It's unspeakable. Yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think that we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for."

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Re: The "Waking Life" Thread
« Reply #1 on Jun 17, 2004, 10:03pm »

I think my absolute favorite part of the film is the part about fate and free will (I think this was discussed in another thread.) But many parts of the film stand out.. Damn, now I have to go watch it! What an excellent movie.

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