There is a period in one’s youth where every word takes on an epic and urgent importance. When where time is compressed, and all history and future are in the now. Where the world seems ready to erupt into…. and then you grow up.
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Waking Life
At first I thought this movie was really pretentious… I didn’t want to be preached to… but, the movie grew on me as it progressed. It’s really a bunch of short clips of people musing / philosophising on aspects of life & reality & the state of man, etc. The animation was really interesting, for me, it made the movie more dreamlike, and although at first it was a distraction (it made it difficult to follow the dialog), I think later it accented the dialog in a way that would have been impossible otherwise… much the way black and white is sometimes better than color.
Gattaca
As time passes, this movie becomes more and more relevant and prescient. Is this really where we’re headed? I liked how the movie focused on the story, and avoided other peripheral items about how the future might work. Not many movies make you think and keep you entertained. This one did.