Waking Life

I think most people would either love Richard Linklater’s Waking Life or hate it. It is a rotoscope animation of a bunch of (real-life) characters from the Austin, Texas area spouting theories on life, the universe and everything, loosely bound by something resembling a plot. I can’t remember why I rented this movie, but I wound up merely liking it, though especially liking the chamber-jazz-tango score by Glover Gill and the Tosca Tango Orchestra. (The film actually includes an animated scene of a rehearsal for the score recording session! Weird.) The music is like an Americanized, less precious version of the score for Amelie. Not the kind of music I would have thought I’d go for, but my musical subconscious is full of surprises. Or maybe I am just dreaming that I like it.