I <3 Huckabees response.

Whilst being a very odd movie I think that I <3 Huckabees brings up some very good ideas and questions that resonate within me about life and how we “should” live it.

I think the fact that Albert goes through all this effort to see if seeing one man several times is more than mere coincidence is slightly odd. Does there have to be an answer for everything? Why do we as people always try to have an answer for everything however trivial the subject matter really is?

When Bernard is trying to explain to Albert in a positive way that we as living things on earth are all connected no matter what is very true. No matter how much effort you put into separating yourself from another thing you are never going to be successful. At the end of the day we are all still apart of this planet so it seems that somehow we all must be connected. It’s like that friend of a friend of a sister who knows Brad Pitt. We all connect somehow.

It seems to me that a lot of people always bring a negative connotation to everything. Why must it always come down to being alone in the world and nothing really mattering? Why can’t we just be? Without any stipulations or expectations just live. How can we accurately say nothing matters in life when there are things those same people who are saying that are attached to. It’s a contradiction. “If nothing matters, how can I matter?” –Tommy’s girlfriend. When Tommy’s girlfriend was packing her bag and Tommy was trying to convince her to fight the good fight with him and find true meaning the realization hit that if life didn’t matter to Tommy how could she legitimately matter to him also? You can’t. I don’t know it just seems to me that the people who actually believe this type of thing only allow meaninglessness to present itself on their terms. Only when it’s convenient for them, its like a switch between nothingness and simply life.

The fact that the movie does not take itself seriously at all says a lot to me. it just gives me the feeling of life is too short and meaningful to twist it into something miserable dreary and lonely. We should appreciate our lives for what they are not for what they are not.