Tear Jerker / Waking Life

• One woman talks about her life in past tense, as if she were one of the recently dead. Made worse by the implication that she is the hero's dead mother (she played Wiggins' mother in Dazed and Confused.)
  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.
• An old woman presents a drawing she made of The Dreamer in pencil - and the brief scene lends a mortality and weight, especially since the very next scene is a man mumbling as he walks past The Dreamer, "Kierkegaard's last words were 'Sweep me up!'

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