- Awesome Music: The music score is wonderfully discordant and dissonant, leading to the crescendo when the band is playing for some waltzers in a danse macabre.
- Memetic Mutation: "Super perfundo on the early eve of your day!"
- Retroactive Recognition: A young Alex Jones is shown driving around Austin lecturing over loudspeakers to the populace.
- Nightmare Fuel: Its surreal nature, rotoscoping-used animation style and themes of existential crisis can be downright unsetlling and there are many scenes which can be creepy like a character describing torture in hell or another setting themselves on fire, even though the overall effect of the animation might make moments like these feel more eerie and dreamlike than disturbing or horrifying.
- Spiritual Successor:
- Linklater's 2006 A Scanner Darkly 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, in addition to a clearly identifiable main character.
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