In a broad sense waking life is about a young man who is in a continuous dream and he cant wake up. Every time he thinks he does he comes to realise he is still dreaming. He eventually comes to the realisation he can not Wake up and fears he may be dead. The film draws on in particular existentialist notions as well as ones of situationist, post humanity and politics.
What really makes the film is the technique which is used to give it is dream life/cartoon feel, the whole way through the characters have this disembodied notion attached to the and everything is constantly moving as though it is floating. This is achieved through use of the rotoscope. Action footage was overlayed with animation. The film was mostly produced using Rotoshop, a custom-made rotoscoping program that creates blends between keyframe vector shapes.
A philip K. Dick essay is also discussed within the film and makes a connection between a scanner darkly and waking life which also uses the same rotoscoping technique.
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