Undone: Philosophical, barbed wit, visually striking
Alma has one foot in the realm of the dead and one in the realm of the living, and is struggling to understand the elasticity of reality now that her temporal perception is no longer linear. Either that or she’s having a very trippy morphine-drip fever dream.
Inspired by esoteric and psychedelic 2001 film
Waking Life, Amazon’s first animated series uses computerised rotoscoping, an old technique in which live-action footage is traced over, frame by frame. The result is realistic in a puzzling way, enmeshing reality with hallucinations that will have you gawking at the visual splendor while scratching your head with a furrowed brow.