Waking Life
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1:06:00
I don't feel like an ant in my head,
but I guess I probably look like one.

1:06:04
It's kind of like D.H. Lawrence had this
idea of two people meeting on a road...

1:06:09
And instead of just passing
and glancing away,

1:06:11
they decided to accept what he calls
"the confrontation between their souls."

1:06:15
It's like, um-- like freeing
the brave reckless gods within us all.

1:06:20
Then it's like
we have met.

1:06:24
I'm doing this project. I'm hoping
you'll be interested in doing it.

1:06:27
It's a soap opera,
1:06:29
and, so, the characters
are the fantasy lives.

1:06:32
They're the alter egos of
the performers who are in it.

1:06:35
So you pretty much just figure out
something that you’ve always
wanted to do...

1:06:38
or the life you’ve wanted to lead
or occupation or something like that.

1:06:42
And we write that in, and then we
also have your life intersect...

1:06:46
with other people's in the soap opera
in some typical soap opera fashion.

1:06:51
Then I also want to show it
in a live venue...

1:06:54
and have the actors present
so that once the episode is screened,

1:06:58
then the audience
can direct...

1:07:01
the actors for subsequent
episodes with menus or something.

1:07:04
So it has a lot to do with choices
and honoring people's ability...

1:07:09
to say what it is
that they want to see...

1:07:11
and also consumerism
and art and commodity.

1:07:15
And if you don't like what you got,
then you can send it back...

1:07:18
or you get
what you pay for,

1:07:21
or just participating,
just really making choices.

1:07:25
- So, you wanna do it?
- Uh, yeah. Yeah, that
sounds really cool.

1:07:29
I'd love to be
in it, but, um--

1:07:33
Uh, I kinda gotta ask you
a question first though.

1:07:36
I don't really know
how to say it, but, um--

1:07:39
uh, what's it like to be
a character in a dream?

1:07:42
'Cause, uh, I'm not
awake right now.

1:07:46
And I haven't even worn
a watch since, like, fourth grade.

1:07:49
I think this is
the same watch too.

1:07:51
Um-- Uh, yeah.
1:07:54
I don't even know if you’re able
to answer that question.

1:07:57
But I'm just trying to get like a sense
of where I am and what's going on.


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