“Psychological Theories Represented In the Film – Waking Life”
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“Psychological Theories Represented In the Film – Waking Life”

Introduction
The movie, Waking Life, is a profound manifestation of the connection between the real world and the dream world. The whole movie is Rotoscoped i.e. filmed with real characters but remade into animated scenes. It is a movie that has several scenes that are interrelated in meaning with one another. The different scenes also serve a purpose of helping the protagonist accept the invitation of God through his own free will. Most parts of the movie are so deep that they are hardly comprehensible and give vast meanings that can be interpreted independently through the eyes of the observers. However, one can easily say that the movie is based on the psychological and philosophical norms, in fact, most of the characters are even directly referring to the different psychological theories like nihilism, free will, dream consciousness etc. In this paper, the different theories in the movie, Waking Life, are discussed as represented through the narrative, story, characterization, and cinematography of the film.

Discussion
The three most exquisite elements of the film are its cinematography, the stellar soundtrack and the philosophical scenes which add to the viewers’ interest in the movie. The director, Richard Linklater, has filmed this movie with the use of the Rotoscopy technique so as to depict that the scenes are happening in the dream of the protagonist (Dobson; Iftody, 2009). There is substantial imagery in the film which supports the narrative. For instance, when one of the characters speaks about reality and free will, water rises up his body as he compares human experience with water or quantum particles float in the air around him when he