you say whatever feels natural to you. you can say: "sorry, i don't do drugs" and walk away, or, "i like the way you think, my name is blah blah, wanna meet up for coffee sometime?", and you shake on it. it's that simple. i can't imagine anything more simple.
i wonder how many times she's used this to pick up guys. "heeey, can we do that againn?" i think if i were a guy, i'd tease her and say: "nope, you should've gotten it right the first time." :P
Umm... for you interested in this movie... i think.. well as someone who saw it when i was 16, i think the next step... from watching this emm epic movie, is to move forward with it. sometimes, over analyzation is a problem. big problem. and, dont force yourself to be a character in this movie. or a scene from it. sometimes it's best to JUST BE. i think this movie does cause enlightenment. but most of that is actually worry instead of transcendention. that's all x]
@Jace18234 ooooh sorry buddy. didnt mean to offend you there. no i've seen it many times before. superior intellect? ehh.. when i was 15 my iq averaged around 140. not that superior. i think life experience helps. i've spent half my life in the other side of the world. different views and such. and a very open mind. i just know people very well. if you look hard enough we can be predictable. i was just saying, i'm all for higher thinking, but everything needs moderation.
saw the whole film last night on bbc5.tv and found it thoroughly engaging. The music throughout emotionally charges and compliments the animation, which i thought brilliantly illustrated the shifting ethereal nature of the visual field phenomena our brains conjure into realtime reality . The attempted exposition of the elephant in the room of our lives... consciousness itself... is at the heart of the agenda of this work. Totally fascinating and multi layered
@Tjbigguy LOLLOL careful sonny , the adults are talking and your making a big fool of yourself . Run along and be good boy the other kids are waiting for you. Seriously though, if you wish to insult, you must devote a few moments to your task. As an opening gambit ' you're a faggot ' is pathetic and says more about you and your homophobia and potential latent homosexuality than it does the men you frequently hurl it at. If you like guys, you like guys so don't hate yourself or others for it!?
@damos300 actually, before I had time to move on to read tjbigguy's original comment, i already realized something- you're a faggot. haha, dont make a big deal of something thats used in context, trying to misconstrue principles about sexuality into it. just live it, faggot
@bukk3t and tjbigguy. Ahh its the american way ! I'm so sorry i forgot . I do care , so i write. I love my' faggotness 'and now that i know you weren't being insulting, just using the vernacular its ok . I recognised long ago that we all see things testingly from our own perspective, and having known good people who have suffered for their sexual orientation from others, religious institutions and from the state itself, maybe i'm over sensitive to the intention behind the meaningless comment !
@Tjbigguy LOLLOL careful sonny , the adults are talking and your making a big fool of yourself . Run along and be good boy the other kids are waiting for you. Seriously though, if you wish to insult, you must devote a few moments to your task. As an opening gambit ' you're a faggot ' is pathetic and says more about you and your homophobia and potential latent homosexuality than it does the men you frequently hurl it at. If you like guys, you like guys so don't hate yourself or others for it!?
I love this movie, even the parts I have to struggle to understand. Struggling to understand a movie - what a concept!
This is one of my favorite parts - I've always tried to pull people out, engage them & find out about them. For me, it's one of the most important parts of being alive. Aside from that, it's fun - it's the glorious jazz of life.
Yeah, I've met a few dull people (maybe better said I couldn't get at their interesting part) but I find most people very interesting.
@FeelFreeToArgue I love this film too. I saw it on Ch4 bloody ages ago and have been trying to find it ever since! I must be slow on the uptake 'cos I only just thought of you-tube! What a plonker.. Now I'm sure I am really awake, but am already questioning the validity of the statement.. although either way, the dream is undoubtedly underway..
You left out the best part of this scene, when they are sitting and talking, "we seem to think we are so limited by the world and confines when really we are just creating them. You're sleeping but your awake, but now that you know, you can do anything you want to, and that's what life is about."
This reminds me of how sometimes my friend will be at a red light and just start staring at the person in the car next to him with a blank expression on his face. They give him a little smile then turn away and pretend to ignore him. He never stops watching them though.
I always think about this when I enter an elevator with someone I don't know for like 10 floors up my office building. I am still hardly moved to action... I guess I attribute my fear to interact with strangers to the notion of how uncomfortable it is when someone doesn't even acknowledge your existence with a simple "hello". We are so wrapped up in our own mission that we dare not waste time in interrupting our "busy" schedule in human interaction.
1 day after watching this movie i remember going to the hospital and remember laughing and smiling at the world around me. i simply couldn't help it, the world was hilarious. every problem had a conclusion, everything was minscule, nothing was vindictive or evil, just simply, immediate.
It reinvigorated me knowing that i had the ability to not be like an ant and As such, i remember taking the lift up to the 3rd floor and simply thanking everyone in the lift for sharing my existence.
This is one of my favorite scenes from this thoughtful film as well. It encourages me to smile a little more and make a little more eye contact with those I may bump into, But the world is in such a big, uptight hurry. And people so often have ulterior motives when they introduce themselves with pleasantries. It's natural for us to be on guard, and to just move along like "ants." Still, I try not to be so robotic about it when I don't like the approach of a stranger. I try.
cupple of years ago i was on autopilot at all times.. Only some few times did i wake up from the ant autopilot and observe.
Now however
I am never on autopilot anymore and its quite frustrating at times.
I am now always observing the ants. Always observing morale, right and wrong. evil and good in everyday situasions. So few are awake..
But i guess if i was a little braver i could probebly brake some of them out of it.. guess it just boils down to having the balls to be your true self always:)
If a girl introduced herself to me with this speech, I reckon I'd be more attracted to her than most other people I've ever met. I almost always want to do this, shame i usually never have the balls to go ahead with it. I'm usually too worried that the response would be "what a weirdo", but would it really though? or are most people thinking the same thing but just too scared? goddamn society
@tsunamiplayer3 Pretty much what he does, I'd be flustered and surprised at first but I definitely think I'd get into the connection and just share what's on my mind. Try to understand the other person
you say whatever feels natural to you. you can say: "sorry, i don't do drugs" and walk away, or, "i like the way you think, my name is blah blah, wanna meet up for coffee sometime?", and you shake on it. it's that simple. i can't imagine anything more simple.
you say whatever feels natural to you. you can say: "sorry, i don't do drugs" and walk away, or, "i like the way you think, my name is blah blah, wanna meet up for coffee sometime?", and you shake on it. it's that simple. i can't imagine anything more simple.
@binge011 it'd definitely be breaking the norms, theres nothing wrong with being on 'auto pilot', if someone is meant to be your friend/lover/whatever then you will talk to them or meet them somehow, if not you'll meet someone else. There's far too many people in the world to meet, to talk to. I occaisionaly get this anti-ant feeling, and start a conversation with someone on a train, or a bus or a club or a bar, it makes sense, just not always
@flaredubstep or maybe nothing's meant to be, and we create our own meaning, our own what's meant simply in what "happens" because we want there to be a meaning behind it.
@binge011 Ya know, I HAVE said this to people. I don't believe in society's "norms," i believe in real human contact and sporting real human characteristics. I love that you wrote that.
where are these women? i'm sure they are somewhere on this planet. but where? they usually walk past me when i smile. If i would say something they'd think i'm a freak. at least, where i'm from. Belgium kinda sucks. it became something like an americanized pop culture. With women who look like raccoons and wear gucci. very sad...
@mistamistaladyisdead You say that like it means something while completely dodging my point. I was implying that you assume that women who would actually can only exist in a dream because well.... You're a loser.
Yea...stop being an ant. Be...existential. But still...just cuz you cant experience another person's consciousness....doesn't mean it aint there. We all LOOK like ants, but none of us certainly FEEL like one. I agree though...our actions should convey that.
This sort of thing happened to me a few days ago! I was studying at my university library late at night until I had to go catch the bus at 11:15 pm. At the bus stop, another guy was there waiting for the same bus. We waited and waited but the bus never came. Then we found out that I read the AM bus instead of PM while he read the wrong bus line. Long story short, instead of separating ways, he decided to walk me back to my apartment and we talked about life! It was such an awesome experience! :D
@grEEnTEar It is these kind of moments that MAKES life. This movie is so awesome and inspiring. Not just with lucid dreams (which I think we seriously could have as a subject in school since its so fucking awesome.) but with all the talks and points on existence. My fav movie of all time no doubt
@grEEnTEar That will be an unforgettable memory, i love discussing life with other people. Have never done it with a stranger before tho! Sounds awesome!
@grEEnTEar too bad it takes something to break the ice for people to not be offput by this sort of thing. but justifiable negativity aside, sounds amazing ;)
The actual "plot" of this movie can be seen as an hour and a half of the most interesting philosophy course one can find. The characters and conversations are deep, fascinating, and thought-provoking.enjoy the full movie at BigOnlineMovies . c o m
This is one of my favorite clips from Waking Life... so true!! Even if you don't have time to have a conversation with a random passerby at least say hello, we are all humans not robots
That's the same thing as the scene with the two men speaking about "holy moments". How every moment is holy, but who can live like that? "Holy, holy, holy".
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this is an interesting perspective but if you took time to talk to every single person you run into you wouldn't even have time to get anything productive done, in fact no one would. we'd basically be all free spirited hippies.
@Thirdeye386 i dont think thats what its trying to say but how many strangers that you see when your out in clubs or on the street do you realy make a connection with
Haha I just had to laugh at this comment! I can kind of see your point, I just had this image in my head of this world where everyone stops to speak to everyone, I don't know why but I just starte laughing?!
Haha I just had to laugh at this comment! I can kind of see your point, I just had this image in my head of this world where everyone stops to speak to everyone, I don't know why but I just started laughing?!
Nós somos insetos. Vermes rastejando sob a constante maldade, Eu ergo minha cabeça, mais alto que a lua... até não poder mais enxergar vocês, seres dignos de pena.
@EletrikRaneboah Then get off the computer, also they're just using buzz words, it means nothing. Everything you do is a real action, including bumping into someone and keeping on walking. Moments will happen on their own though.
If I bumped into someone and they suddenly stopped me and started spouting this kind of stuff I would be scared shitless. Oh id stick around and chat with them, sure. Have you ever had a complete stranger come up to you and begin talking really deeply and philosophically? Ive only had those types of conversations with my close friends so I would be wierded out if someone I did not even know started talking to me about Nietzsche or St. Thomas Aquinas. Im still waiting for that conversation though
You're exactly right. It's bizarre. Completely uncomfortable. I feel the pathos of this video, really. But it misses something, maybe not fundamental but fundamental enough, about "individuals".
I thought you left out the more important aspect of this scene at the end, when he just kind of zones out at what shes saying.
Its a paradox that we long for contact with other humans, but over all, other humans always seem to fail to stimulate after time. You see it in casual conversation, the drifting of friends, once married people, its a pervasive theme of the human condition to return to aspects of mental isolation.
For all we know, life itself is a paradox. I mean why do we live only to die? It could be the meaning to life, or the meaning of death. If thats the reason for death, then even death is a a paradox since we were once alive.
In the simplest of terms, to survive and reproduce is the purpose of our existence as animals.
Evidence of a higher meaning beyond our genetic precepts can only be speculated.
Even the inherent purpose beyond the reproductive drive has no clear goal, and though it may be an organized force nature, it is an assumption to think there is some 'outcome'or'origin' to it all.
Though all that aside,I find that its best to attached a reason for existence onto yourself and for me its to have fun. 8D
My point being, life and death are conflicted idea's in that they are existent for us to experience. Why wasn't our lives infinite, or why couldn't we have been non-exsistent in the first place? This is like a contradiction, that continously loops because of us reproduction. It's a paradox right?
I love this movie, I have always liked the idea of lucid dreaming and have practiced it for a while know. This movie just keeps hinting at the possibility that perhaps our dream existence is just as important as our physical existence. Who is to say our dream existence is really our physical existence or vice versa.
nice comment mate, I've thought the same too.. who's not to say this reality is our physical existance and now our dreams?? This reality could quite possibly be the perception he have based on our dreams..
This is the best chat-up dialogue ever! There are so many times I've wanted to stop a stranger in the street and do this. Wouldn't make as much sense or go as smoothly as in this film though.
"Ayn Rand was a truculent, domineering cult-leader, whose Objectivist pseudo-philosophy attempts to ensnare adolescents with heroic fiction about righteous capitalists."
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this movie can get me depressed at times. i never know the reason why.
but yeah sometimes i come across times where ill pass someone or see someone from a distance and you and the person lock eye contact for a few seconds or so then you go on with your life. and sometimes i ask myself...what if?
this movie is amazing. it put out a lot of my questions into a movie.
It's a charming moment in the context of the film, but truthfully, if someone did this in real life I'd probably want to punch them.
Very slick of him to have the D.H. Lawrence reference to hand, though.
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He totally made that up. DH Lawrence never said that. It was TS Elliot.
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TheBirchswinger 1 year ago
look at those dark eye bags. she looks highhhh. he does, too, actually. 'tis a match made in heaven.
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@tsunamiplayer3
you say whatever feels natural to you. you can say: "sorry, i don't do drugs" and walk away, or, "i like the way you think, my name is blah blah, wanna meet up for coffee sometime?", and you shake on it. it's that simple. i can't imagine anything more simple.
TheBirchswinger 1 year ago
i wonder how many times she's used this to pick up guys. "heeey, can we do that againn?" i think if i were a guy, i'd tease her and say: "nope, you should've gotten it right the first time." :P
TheBirchswinger 1 year ago
haha that looks like something I would do :]
starestella 1 year ago
Umm... for you interested in this movie... i think.. well as someone who saw it when i was 16, i think the next step... from watching this emm epic movie, is to move forward with it. sometimes, over analyzation is a problem. big problem. and, dont force yourself to be a character in this movie. or a scene from it. sometimes it's best to JUST BE. i think this movie does cause enlightenment. but most of that is actually worry instead of transcendention. that's all x]
DreamzOfADeadman 1 year ago
@DreamzOfADeadman oooooooo sorry mate, with your superior intellect. how the fuck did you even fully understand this movie at 16. bellend
Jace18234 1 year ago
@Jace18234 ooooh sorry buddy. didnt mean to offend you there. no i've seen it many times before. superior intellect? ehh.. when i was 15 my iq averaged around 140. not that superior. i think life experience helps. i've spent half my life in the other side of the world. different views and such. and a very open mind. i just know people very well. if you look hard enough we can be predictable. i was just saying, i'm all for higher thinking, but everything needs moderation.
DreamzOfADeadman 1 year ago
saw the whole film last night on bbc5.tv and found it thoroughly engaging. The music throughout emotionally charges and compliments the animation, which i thought brilliantly illustrated the shifting ethereal nature of the visual field phenomena our brains conjure into realtime reality . The attempted exposition of the elephant in the room of our lives... consciousness itself... is at the heart of the agenda of this work. Totally fascinating and multi layered
damos300 1 year ago
@damos300 Your a faggot.
Tjbigguy 1 year ago
@Tjbigguy LOLLOL careful sonny , the adults are talking and your making a big fool of yourself . Run along and be good boy the other kids are waiting for you. Seriously though, if you wish to insult, you must devote a few moments to your task. As an opening gambit ' you're a faggot ' is pathetic and says more about you and your homophobia and potential latent homosexuality than it does the men you frequently hurl it at. If you like guys, you like guys so don't hate yourself or others for it!?
damos300 1 year ago
@damos300 actually, before I had time to move on to read tjbigguy's original comment, i already realized something- you're a faggot. haha, dont make a big deal of something thats used in context, trying to misconstrue principles about sexuality into it. just live it, faggot
bukk3t 1 year ago
@bukk3t bukk3t', you're the coolest
bukk3t 1 year ago
@bukk3t See, someone smart on youtube for once (: hoorahh lol
Tjbigguy 1 year ago
@bukk3t and tjbigguy. Ahh its the american way ! I'm so sorry i forgot . I do care , so i write. I love my' faggotness 'and now that i know you weren't being insulting, just using the vernacular its ok . I recognised long ago that we all see things testingly from our own perspective, and having known good people who have suffered for their sexual orientation from others, religious institutions and from the state itself, maybe i'm over sensitive to the intention behind the meaningless comment !
damos300 1 year ago
@Tjbigguy LOLLOL careful sonny , the adults are talking and your making a big fool of yourself . Run along and be good boy the other kids are waiting for you. Seriously though, if you wish to insult, you must devote a few moments to your task. As an opening gambit ' you're a faggot ' is pathetic and says more about you and your homophobia and potential latent homosexuality than it does the men you frequently hurl it at. If you like guys, you like guys so don't hate yourself or others for it!?
damos300 1 year ago
@damos300 I am gay (: I dont hate myself :P im very comfortable with my sexuality actually ;) good insult. (: love youu :D faggot :P lol :DD
Tjbigguy 1 year ago
@Tjbigguy lol jk im straight, being gay is for fags
Tjbigguy 1 year ago
Left Hand Path!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHROOMETALHEAD666420 1 year ago
gaaaaaaaaaaaay
TylerTheStud42 1 year ago
Does anybody know which of D.H. Lawrence's books he's referring to?
elishebaal 1 year ago
@elishebaal did you find out ? I m also interested in it
biraleos 1 year ago
@biraleos Apparently the quote isn't referring to a particular novel or story..
elishebaal 1 year ago
@biraleos
"When I meet another man, and he is just himself - even if he is an
ignorant Mexican pitted with small-pox - then there is no question
between us of superiority or inferiority. He is a man and I am a man.
We are ourselves. There is no question between us.
But let a question arise, let there be a challenge, and then I feel he
should do reverence to the gods in me, because they are more than the
gods in him.
elishebaal 1 year ago
@biraleos
If this is conceit, I am sorry. But it's the gods in me that matter.
And in other men.
As for me, I am so glad to salute the brave, reckless gods in another
man. So glad to meet a man who will abide by his very self.
Ideas! Ideals! All this paper between us. What a weariness.
If only people would meet in their very selves, without wanting to put
some idea over one another, or some ideal.
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Damn all ideas and all ideals. Damn all the false stress, and the pins.
I am I. Here am I. Where are you ?
Ah, there you are! Now, damn the consequences, we have met.
That's my idea of democracy, if you can call it an idea."
"Studies in Classic
American Literature", D.H.Lawrence
elishebaal 1 year ago
@biraleos
Damn all ideas and all ideals. Damn all the false stress, and the pins.
I am I. Here am I. Where are you ?
Ah, there you are! Now, damn the consequences, we have met.
That's my idea of democracy, if you can call it an idea."
"Studies in Classic
American Literature", D.H.Lawrence
elishebaal 1 year ago
Yeah it is left hand path.
Survivalhorror101 1 year ago
@jeffrey42088
very true
Aidan0128 1 year ago
i want ketchup with that...
EpicBeard815 1 year ago
I love this movie, even the parts I have to struggle to understand. Struggling to understand a movie - what a concept!
This is one of my favorite parts - I've always tried to pull people out, engage them & find out about them. For me, it's one of the most important parts of being alive. Aside from that, it's fun - it's the glorious jazz of life.
Yeah, I've met a few dull people (maybe better said I couldn't get at their interesting part) but I find most people very interesting.
FeelFreeToArgue 1 year ago 6
@FeelFreeToArgue I love this film too. I saw it on Ch4 bloody ages ago and have been trying to find it ever since! I must be slow on the uptake 'cos I only just thought of you-tube! What a plonker.. Now I'm sure I am really awake, but am already questioning the validity of the statement.. although either way, the dream is undoubtedly underway..
MrSeabassuk 1 year ago
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MrSeabassuk 1 year ago
@FeelFreeToArgue
It is left hand path.. Anything of this sort does happen to be hard to understand :P
Aidan0128 1 year ago
@FeelFreeToArgue
If I didn't love your nickname so much I'd definitely steal it XD
elishebaal 1 year ago
u don't have to be an ant, you can be a beetle juice if you like
luchadorbig 1 year ago
haha wat a bunch of dumbasses
luchadorbig 1 year ago
@luchadorbig dun feed the troll
SatanicSilencieux 1 year ago
@SatanicSilencieux so wat ? am I supose to express me feelings everytime I meet a stranger on the streets ?
luchadorbig 1 year ago
@luchadorbig dun feed the troll
SatanicSilencieux 1 year ago
@SatanicSilencieux oh i shall feed the troll u just watch me !!!!!!
luchadorbig 1 year ago
You left out the best part of this scene, when they are sitting and talking, "we seem to think we are so limited by the world and confines when really we are just creating them. You're sleeping but your awake, but now that you know, you can do anything you want to, and that's what life is about."
armandahammer 1 year ago
Kill all white people, and we won't have to be ants.
JurkoffJay 1 year ago
:-)
marcdruten 1 year ago
this is the same guy from dazed and confused!! i recognize his voice!!
sexynyugga 1 year ago
@sexynyugga
yeah it is
TheEvilelvis89 1 year ago
This reminds me of how sometimes my friend will be at a red light and just start staring at the person in the car next to him with a blank expression on his face. They give him a little smile then turn away and pretend to ignore him. He never stops watching them though.
AssMantis 1 year ago
nice thoughts for the old brain ;]
malaverde13 1 year ago
I always think about this when I enter an elevator with someone I don't know for like 10 floors up my office building. I am still hardly moved to action... I guess I attribute my fear to interact with strangers to the notion of how uncomfortable it is when someone doesn't even acknowledge your existence with a simple "hello". We are so wrapped up in our own mission that we dare not waste time in interrupting our "busy" schedule in human interaction.
Were efficiency pigs to varying degrees.
Fruscianteistheman 1 year ago
1 day after watching this movie i remember going to the hospital and remember laughing and smiling at the world around me. i simply couldn't help it, the world was hilarious. every problem had a conclusion, everything was minscule, nothing was vindictive or evil, just simply, immediate.
It reinvigorated me knowing that i had the ability to not be like an ant and As such, i remember taking the lift up to the 3rd floor and simply thanking everyone in the lift for sharing my existence.
Garcian 1 year ago
This film is beautiful.
drewskione 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite scenes from this thoughtful film as well. It encourages me to smile a little more and make a little more eye contact with those I may bump into, But the world is in such a big, uptight hurry. And people so often have ulterior motives when they introduce themselves with pleasantries. It's natural for us to be on guard, and to just move along like "ants." Still, I try not to be so robotic about it when I don't like the approach of a stranger. I try.
nychro7 1 year ago 3
im gonna perform this monologue to a random stranger and im gonna post on my channel guys, i swear
JUANO510 1 year ago
LOL i did CC transcript. and she said, predator devid. and the subtiles said credit card debt payments WTF! XD
112kicker 1 year ago
cupple of years ago i was on autopilot at all times.. Only some few times did i wake up from the ant autopilot and observe.
Now however
I am never on autopilot anymore and its quite frustrating at times.
I am now always observing the ants. Always observing morale, right and wrong. evil and good in everyday situasions. So few are awake..
But i guess if i was a little braver i could probebly brake some of them out of it.. guess it just boils down to having the balls to be your true self always:)
IlligalFreedom 1 year ago
If a girl introduced herself to me with this speech, I reckon I'd be more attracted to her than most other people I've ever met. I almost always want to do this, shame i usually never have the balls to go ahead with it. I'm usually too worried that the response would be "what a weirdo", but would it really though? or are most people thinking the same thing but just too scared? goddamn society
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@binge011 I would think "what a geek" or something along those lines. It's very nerdy to try and be something "unique",
1tanterhetaida2 1 year ago
@binge011 if some random person came up to you and said that what the heck do you say in reply??
tsunamiplayer3 1 year ago
@tsunamiplayer3 Pretty much what he does, I'd be flustered and surprised at first but I definitely think I'd get into the connection and just share what's on my mind. Try to understand the other person
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@tsunamiplayer3
you say whatever feels natural to you. you can say: "sorry, i don't do drugs" and walk away, or, "i like the way you think, my name is blah blah, wanna meet up for coffee sometime?", and you shake on it. it's that simple. i can't imagine anything more simple.
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@tsunamiplayer3
you say whatever feels natural to you. you can say: "sorry, i don't do drugs" and walk away, or, "i like the way you think, my name is blah blah, wanna meet up for coffee sometime?", and you shake on it. it's that simple. i can't imagine anything more simple.
TheBirchswinger 1 year ago
@binge011 it'd definitely be breaking the norms, theres nothing wrong with being on 'auto pilot', if someone is meant to be your friend/lover/whatever then you will talk to them or meet them somehow, if not you'll meet someone else. There's far too many people in the world to meet, to talk to. I occaisionaly get this anti-ant feeling, and start a conversation with someone on a train, or a bus or a club or a bar, it makes sense, just not always
flaredubstep 1 year ago
@flaredubstep or maybe nothing's meant to be, and we create our own meaning, our own what's meant simply in what "happens" because we want there to be a meaning behind it.
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@binge011 Ya know, I HAVE said this to people. I don't believe in society's "norms," i believe in real human contact and sporting real human characteristics. I love that you wrote that.
AND I'm a girl.
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@binge011
He totally made that up. DH Lawrence never said that. It was TS Elliot.
TheBirchswinger 1 year ago
@binge011 We're too scared.
webgeek6 1 year ago
Oh God that woman would annoy the hell out of anyone in real life!
wilburtrex 1 year ago
where are these women? i'm sure they are somewhere on this planet. but where? they usually walk past me when i smile. If i would say something they'd think i'm a freak. at least, where i'm from. Belgium kinda sucks. it became something like an americanized pop culture. With women who look like raccoons and wear gucci. very sad...
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 these woman only exist in the dream world....like this movie
mistamistaladyisdead 1 year ago
@mistamistaladyisdead ITT: Social Misfits.
rapperkid10 1 year ago
@rapperkid10 somebodys an ant
mistamistaladyisdead 1 year ago
@mistamistaladyisdead You say that like it means something while completely dodging my point. I was implying that you assume that women who would actually can only exist in a dream because well.... You're a loser.
rapperkid10 1 year ago
@rapperkid10 oh word my bad now i get ya...sorry for the misunderstanding
mistamistaladyisdead 1 year ago
@mistamistaladyisdead I appreciate you admitting that you are of lesser intelligence.
rapperkid10 1 year ago
@rapperkid10 of course man any time...u wanna get a burger or something?
mistamistaladyisdead 1 year ago
@mistamistaladyisdead Shut up. I don't eat with idiots. You might miss your mouth.
rapperkid10 1 year ago
@rapperkid10 :(
mistamistaladyisdead 1 year ago
@mistamistaladyisdead for some people it might have become real, you never know
slashoasis156 1 year ago
Listen to your mother, dont talk to strangers.
duncan36 1 year ago
If I meet a girl like this....my search is over
venkatcpe 1 year ago 14
@venkatcpe : Exactly what I have been thinking since I saw this film :)
Aleisdee 1 year ago 3
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dancingtokio 1 year ago
@venkatcpe
you mean not all girls are like this?
TheBirchswinger 1 year ago
ants are pretty interesting though
92451721921892113 1 year ago 2
Yea...stop being an ant. Be...existential. But still...just cuz you cant experience another person's consciousness....doesn't mean it aint there. We all LOOK like ants, but none of us certainly FEEL like one. I agree though...our actions should convey that.
armandahammer 1 year ago
"I don't want a STRAW, i want real human moments"
Brilliant :)
heysteve84 1 year ago 2
when i go grocery shopping, if i wake myself up from ant autopilot, i look around and i see all the ants shopping.
herbalvegas 1 year ago 3
@herbalvegas i like what u say here. right-on
theartsychica593 1 year ago
i don't want to be an ant.....
visceralgorewhore 1 year ago
Every time I see this I want to do this, be more aware, talk to more people... such a powerful film...
CorrieDavidson 2 years ago
@CorrieDavidson me too, but its hard as fuck, isn't it? you have to step outside your 'ant' comfort-zone. :/
leshtricity 1 year ago
This is such a great movie.
joiningtheforce 2 years ago 2
geez man. that's what i've been thinkin this whole time. people don't want to talk to other people.
grayzbeardz 2 years ago
This sort of thing happened to me a few days ago! I was studying at my university library late at night until I had to go catch the bus at 11:15 pm. At the bus stop, another guy was there waiting for the same bus. We waited and waited but the bus never came. Then we found out that I read the AM bus instead of PM while he read the wrong bus line. Long story short, instead of separating ways, he decided to walk me back to my apartment and we talked about life! It was such an awesome experience! :D
grEEnTEar 2 years ago 97
@grEEnTEar It is these kind of moments that MAKES life. This movie is so awesome and inspiring. Not just with lucid dreams (which I think we seriously could have as a subject in school since its so fucking awesome.) but with all the talks and points on existence. My fav movie of all time no doubt
stoffeboyei 1 year ago
@grEEnTEar did u end up boning him
Shirro384 1 year ago
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@grEEnTEar you faggot why would you let another man walk you home you queer Did you guys stop to have low fat mochas too? your a homo
89hbiba 1 year ago
@89hbiba It baffles me how someone as narrow-minded as yourself could be even remotely interested in something like Waking Life..
0Random0Alchemist0 1 year ago
@89hbiba
Interesting projection there pal. Are you trying to hide something?
antoconno 1 year ago
@grEEnTEar That will be an unforgettable memory, i love discussing life with other people. Have never done it with a stranger before tho! Sounds awesome!
Richard133t 1 year ago
@grEEnTEar
I've had a few wanna-be-similar experiences with Taxi-drivers, lol.
somedump 1 year ago
@grEEnTEar oh that's great, It's awesome how just meeting random people sometimes can make you feel better
slashoasis156 1 year ago
@grEEnTEar too bad it takes something to break the ice for people to not be offput by this sort of thing. but justifiable negativity aside, sounds amazing ;)
bukk3t 1 year ago
@bukk3t self control = total power = absence of -corruption-
EnemyCombatant74 1 year ago
@grEEnTEar Sometimes the best experiences in life are the most random.
theallseeingoracle 1 year ago
One of my fav also in a non copyosis way.
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johnflemminng 2 years ago
This is one of my favorite clips from Waking Life... so true!! Even if you don't have time to have a conversation with a random passerby at least say hello, we are all humans not robots
fuzzilumpkin 2 years ago 6
That's the same thing as the scene with the two men speaking about "holy moments". How every moment is holy, but who can live like that? "Holy, holy, holy".
aalexajeann 2 years ago
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this is an interesting perspective but if you took time to talk to every single person you run into you wouldn't even have time to get anything productive done, in fact no one would. we'd basically be all free spirited hippies.
Thirdeye386 2 years ago
totaly wright, that only would happen when vinues project is realy true . and what is wrong with being spirited hippies?
tranquildisturbe 2 years ago
@Thirdeye386 i dont think thats what its trying to say but how many strangers that you see when your out in clubs or on the street do you realy make a connection with
ciarandog 2 years ago 2
@Thirdeye386
Haha I just had to laugh at this comment! I can kind of see your point, I just had this image in my head of this world where everyone stops to speak to everyone, I don't know why but I just starte laughing?!
damofarrell 2 years ago
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@Thirdeye386
Haha I just had to laugh at this comment! I can kind of see your point, I just had this image in my head of this world where everyone stops to speak to everyone, I don't know why but I just started laughing?!
damofarrell 2 years ago
i wish.....
jaybeze14 2 years ago
Nós somos insetos. Vermes rastejando sob a constante maldade, Eu ergo minha cabeça, mais alto que a lua... até não poder mais enxergar vocês, seres dignos de pena.
Capaverde 2 years ago
@Capaverde haha
sugaryxoosweets 1 year ago
I experienced a similar situation once. I hade just moved to a new city and was walking from the central parts towards the university that I attend.
On my way I met a man who looked at me and said hi.
Being in good spirits I greeted him and I agreed to let him walk with me for a bit.
We talked about human intertactions and how liberating it could be to ignore the social convention and just speak to a stranger.
Our paths then took different ways and we parted, never to see each other again.
forceoflinus 2 years ago 10
...I remember why I like this film.
matx33 2 years ago 4
i want real human moments.
EletrikRaneboah 2 years ago 67
Me too...have been ignoring real human connections for too long. Been too cynical about 'em. That's gotta change...need to figure out how though.
30secondsflat 2 years ago 3
@EletrikRaneboah Then get off the computer, also they're just using buzz words, it means nothing. Everything you do is a real action, including bumping into someone and keeping on walking. Moments will happen on their own though.
TheArtistOfKuroo 1 year ago
@EletrikRaneboah get off the computer (: ( lmao i'm sorry i had to!)
BIBIdeathnote 1 year ago
@EletrikRaneboah, you have them, every moment you're alive. Every moment is a real human moment no matter how mundane and irrelevant it may seem.
jdlund 1 year ago
If I bumped into someone and they suddenly stopped me and started spouting this kind of stuff I would be scared shitless. Oh id stick around and chat with them, sure. Have you ever had a complete stranger come up to you and begin talking really deeply and philosophically? Ive only had those types of conversations with my close friends so I would be wierded out if someone I did not even know started talking to me about Nietzsche or St. Thomas Aquinas. Im still waiting for that conversation though
ViktorValentine 2 years ago
You're exactly right. It's bizarre. Completely uncomfortable. I feel the pathos of this video, really. But it misses something, maybe not fundamental but fundamental enough, about "individuals".
BombdePlume 2 years ago
goddamn ants!
pboisei 2 years ago 2
What the heck is wrong with ants?!
prsturm 2 years ago
I thought you left out the more important aspect of this scene at the end, when he just kind of zones out at what shes saying.
Its a paradox that we long for contact with other humans, but over all, other humans always seem to fail to stimulate after time. You see it in casual conversation, the drifting of friends, once married people, its a pervasive theme of the human condition to return to aspects of mental isolation.
EndlessPalm 2 years ago 4
For all we know, life itself is a paradox. I mean why do we live only to die? It could be the meaning to life, or the meaning of death. If thats the reason for death, then even death is a a paradox since we were once alive.
YokHon 2 years ago
You're assuming there has to be a reason at all, for which there is no evidence
EndlessPalm 2 years ago
Isn't our existence evidence enough? Or do you see no reason to live?
YokHon 2 years ago
In the simplest of terms, to survive and reproduce is the purpose of our existence as animals.
Evidence of a higher meaning beyond our genetic precepts can only be speculated.
Even the inherent purpose beyond the reproductive drive has no clear goal, and though it may be an organized force nature, it is an assumption to think there is some 'outcome'or'origin' to it all.
Though all that aside,I find that its best to attached a reason for existence onto yourself and for me its to have fun. 8D
EndlessPalm 2 years ago 2
My point being, life and death are conflicted idea's in that they are existent for us to experience. Why wasn't our lives infinite, or why couldn't we have been non-exsistent in the first place? This is like a contradiction, that continously loops because of us reproduction. It's a paradox right?
YokHon 2 years ago
You mean we can never find permanent solace in other human beings?
...Okay, nevermind. But temporary solace counts, right?
wazpoke 2 years ago
What ever makes you happy I guess.
EndlessPalm 2 years ago
... :)
wazpoke 2 years ago
yea it;s great "seeing" someone and not being an ant...until you really get to know the person and than you want to go back to being ant.
freddiefernandez 2 years ago 5
Hahahh, valid point freddie
thediskotree 2 years ago
I love this movie, I have always liked the idea of lucid dreaming and have practiced it for a while know. This movie just keeps hinting at the possibility that perhaps our dream existence is just as important as our physical existence. Who is to say our dream existence is really our physical existence or vice versa.
Sparksterfu 2 years ago 8
I thought that too for a long time.....But ten think about it No Physical Real life? Think.
Real life is better PERIOD
RobloxFreak122 2 years ago
nice comment mate, I've thought the same too.. who's not to say this reality is our physical existance and now our dreams?? This reality could quite possibly be the perception he have based on our dreams..
streetfightermatt 2 years ago
This is the best chat-up dialogue ever! There are so many times I've wanted to stop a stranger in the street and do this. Wouldn't make as much sense or go as smoothly as in this film though.
Conway79 2 years ago 9
this whole scene where he talks to this girl is like my favourite part in the entire movie.
knightsoftheround 2 years ago
I really do like how human everyone in this movie is.
WithaBuzzinOurEars 2 years ago 5
Yeh cos your a weird cartoon woman!
Pittounikos 2 years ago
LMAO! dude, luv the script writter haha
TOTASS1 2 years ago
naa don't be missing the point of this :-)
IC4nia 2 years ago
Ayn Rand much?
I love this movie.
krish909 2 years ago
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houri2 2 years ago
Don't, throw them out. Ayn Rand is mind poison.
1noen1 2 years ago 2
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houri2 2 years ago
"Ayn Rand was a truculent, domineering cult-leader, whose Objectivist pseudo-philosophy attempts to ensnare adolescents with heroic fiction about righteous capitalists."
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1noen1 2 years ago
i'm curious to know what the last great piece of literature you read?
houri2 2 years ago
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt. "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. Those were some time ago. Currently I'm reading "Violence" by Slavoj Zizek.
1noen1 2 years ago
Follow the logic of Francis.
EndlessPalm 2 years ago
There is no logic in the delusional howlings of Ayn Rand.
1noen1 2 years ago
@1noen1
There is no logic in your delusional statement which at least somewhat implies that Ayn Rand was not the most intelligent female who ever lived.
calmsnowfall 1 year ago
@calmsnowfall -- That didn't make even the least bit of sense. Shouldn't you be off somewhere sucking Ayn Rand's cock?
1noen1 1 year ago
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@1noen1
Your statement about my statement not making any sense does not
make any sense, seeing as my statement makes perfect sense. You are just too stupid to understand it. And no, Ayn Rand is dead. She was also female.
calmsnowfall 1 year ago
@calmsnowfall You know instead of trying to appear so verbose you could have just said "You are wrong, Ayn Rand is the most intelligent so and so"
isuckatparkour 1 year ago
this movie can get me depressed at times. i never know the reason why.
but yeah sometimes i come across times where ill pass someone or see someone from a distance and you and the person lock eye contact for a few seconds or so then you go on with your life. and sometimes i ask myself...what if?
this movie is amazing. it put out a lot of my questions into a movie.
1970bird 2 years ago 14