The Waking Dead

In the move, Waking Life, there are many scenes in which the main character and others are involved in deep philosophical conversations.The course of the movie includes him and others involved in deep philosophical discussions. One of the conversations includes a movie inside a move in which these philosophers discuss aspects of what they call a "holy moment" which involves a kind of summary of the movie itself. "I mean, there's the holy moment and then there's the awareness of trying to have the holy moment, in the same way that the film is the actual moment really happening, but then the character pretending to be in a different reality." -Waking Life. The character is unaware of his reality, and is thus in a holy moment, but when he becomes aware of trying to have the holy moment, he immediately starts searching for a different reality. Another scene is a depiction of some philosophical pedestrians and contrasts them with an old man atop a pole. "No worse than us. He's all action and no theory. We're all theory and no action." -Waking Life. The men are walking aimlessly discussing the theories of the universe, but they put none of that thought into action, just as the man climbed atop the pole with out thinking about it, they are complete opposites. Either action with no fruit, or thoughts with no fruit.

In one of the final scenes of the film, the main character is depicted on a bridge, and a man appears and speaks to him. "An assumption develops that you cannot understand life and live life simultaneously. I do not agree entirely. Which is to say I do not exactly disagree."-Waking Life. The assumption would be that he admits he does not fully understand life, but he understands the point of life, the purpose, living in experiences, life itself is the point of life. The final scene before he "wakes up" shows him having a conversation with a man playing pinball. He explains his problem that he can't wake up, and the man playing pinball who claims to have had the same problem. "And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes."-Waking Life. The fact of the matter is it doesn't matter if he's dreaming or not. Perspectives are based almost completely on relativity, relative to what you already know, so there is no way for him to know if he's dreaming or not. The best thing he can do is accept reality for what it is, accept the things you cannot control, whether or not he is dreaming, there is no way to know.