Waking Life: Film Review Have Essay

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Is she a side of himself he does not know, or is this an illustration that what feels like our reality is not nearly as secure as we assume it is? What limits us in life may be our lack of daring, not life itself.

Identity is pliable in the film -- the dreamer is all the characters, men and women, good and bad, sane and insane. Dreaming reveals how our seemingly secure identities contain many loose ends. It seems to take us away from the constraints of life, from our physical bodies, yet as another character (or part of the main character, dreaming) says, once our physical body dies, we will likely lose the ability to dream.


This pliability of identity, the constructed nature of reality, and our curious sense of separateness yet dependence upon the physical aspects of our being is also true of our conscious life, although these facts are less obvious when we are 'awake' than when we know we are dreaming -- hence the title of the movie Waking Life.

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