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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** Linklater's 2006 ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' adaptation. Both were shot in the same rotoscoped style.
** Also, ''Waking Life'' itself to his first film, ''Slacker''. Both go from character to character, discussing whatever's on their mind. ''Waking Life'' has slightly more plot, though.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Alex Jones is shown driving around Austin lecturing over loudspeakers to the populace.
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* AwesomeMusic: The music score is wonderfully discordant and dissonant, leading to the crescendo when the band is playing for some waltzers in a ''danse macabre''.
* FunnyMoments: "Now I'm Free to see the WOOOOOOORLD!"

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* AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music score is wonderfully discordant and dissonant, leading to the crescendo when the band is playing for some waltzers in a ''danse macabre''.
* FunnyMoments: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Now I'm Free to see the WOOOOOOORLD!"
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* FunnyMoments: "Now I'm Free to see the WOOOOOOORLD!"
** TruthInTelevision: That was one of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPiWCkpl5aM series]] of real ads for Hoveround that played ''ad nauseum'' late night in the 90's. For those who were half-asleep during those hours, that reference is a lot darker.
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* TearJerker: One woman talks about her life in past tense, as if she were one of the recently dead.
-->'''Woman:''' When it was over, all I could think about... was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery. And I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical. I loved all the people dealing with all the contradictory impulses. That's what I loved the most-- connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered.
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* MemeticMutation: "Super perfundo on the early eve of your day!"
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-->'''Woman:''' When it was over, all I could think about... was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery. And I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical. I loved all the people dealing with all the contradictory impulses. That's what I loved the most-- connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered.

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-->'''Woman:''' When it was over, all I could think about... was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery. And I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical. I loved all the people dealing with all the contradictory impulses. That's what I loved the most-- connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered.mattered.
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* AwesomeMusic: The music score is wonderfully discordant and dissonant, leading to the crescendo when the band is playing for some waltzers in a ''danse macabre''.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Supposedly, the movie was a favorite of (alleged) Tuscon, AZ assassin Jared Lee Loughner.
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* TearJerker: One woman talks about her life in past tense, as if she were one of the recently dead.
-->'''Woman:''' When it was over, all I could think about... was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery. And I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical. I loved all the people dealing with all the contradictory impulses. That's what I loved the most-- connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered.
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* TearJerker: One woman talks about her life in past tense, as if she were one of the recently dead.
-->'''Woman:''' When it was over, all I could think about... was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery. And I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical. I loved all the people dealing with all the contradictory impulses. That's what I loved the most-- connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered.

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