Magic Realism: Waking Life 100 Years of Solitude

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Magic RealismWaking Life100 Years of Solitude

• a literary genre in which magical elements appear
  in an otherwise realistic setting. The term was
  first used to describe the work of certain Latin
  American writers.

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Waking Life

• Are we sleep walking through our waking state or
  wake- walking through our dreams.
• 6- 12 minute brain activity after death
• Lucid dreaming- ability to control ones dreams.

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Topics covered in Waking Life

• Existentialism- exuberance of feeling on top of
  it life is yours to create.
• Language- spiritual communion the universal
  language. Intangible experiences are at the base
  of reality.
• Collective Unconsciousness- a study was conducted
  on an isolated group of people. They were given a
  crossword puzzle from an old newspaper and
  results improved 20 as opposed to completing a
  crossword puzzle not yet released to the public.
  We are all telepathically sharing our
  experiences.

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Topics (continued)

• Tension between individual empowerment and
  society
• The purpose and role of art in society
• The subjectivity of reality
• Dreams and collective conscienceness

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Waking Life 100 Years

• 100 years plot specifically uses the same
  character names and circular plot to emphasis how
  history not only moves in cycles, but in
  circles. We are in a sense moving forward in a
  circular fashion.
• In response Waking Life responds to So what are
  these barriers that keep people from reaching
  anywhere near their real potential? The answer to
  that can be found in another question, and thats
  this Which is the most universal human
  characteristic- fear or laziness?

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Waking Life

• this entire thing were involved with called the
  world, is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting
  alienation can be.
• Lorca reference the iguana will bite those who
  do not dream. And as one realizes that one is a
  dream figure in another persons dream, that is
  self awareness.

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Philosophers that influenced this film

• Jean Paul Sartre, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St.
  Thomas Aquinas, Alexander the Great, Stephen La
  Berge, Robert Solomon, Plato, Nietzsche, Benedict
  Anderson, Albert Schweitzer, Andre Bazin,
  Francois Truffaut, Guy Debord, Robert Louis
  Stevenson, DH Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Dostoevsky,
  Kierkegaard, Philip K. Dick, WB Yeats, Garcia
  Lorca.