Huckabees blog

After watching “ I heart Huckabess” in class, I connected the movie to the essential question, do we live in a world that is meaningful and makes sense? The characters in the movie explore this same question as they dig for answers, only to find that the answers will not be buried into text as they had hoped for. Novels, authors, and experts on existentialism help selective individuals try to find they’re reasoning or “purpose” in this life and the next.

The movie had seemed so obvious almost as the main character, the activist trying to save bits of nature found on a Huckabees’ parking lot, hires two existentialist detectives that are hired to follow him around all day and analyze the kind of person he is in order to determine who and what makes him connected to other things or people in this world. The two existentialist detectives are also a couple, so a follow-up question I had during the film was whether the two had joined together based on the hypothesis of them both once being lost and feeling unconnected in this world when younger, much like how the boy is.

The movie then takes a turn as Mark Wahlburg is introduced in the movie as another client of the two existentialist detectives, who after all this progress he had made of discovering who he was, receives a book that he deeply analyzes to be the answer to his question, which also only made him ask more and more questions about who he is. The book he had received was actually from an author who based her novel on exactly the opposite of what the existentialist detectives were preaching. As the detectives followed they’re patients around studying them, the novelist was studying them, following them around.

The boy starts to follow the author’s words instead of the detectives, but still practicing they’re strategies on self-relaxing. He doesn’t know which route to go anymore to find himself, and only confuses himself more. In the end, he feels that everything is for a reason, coming to the conclusion that the novelist was once under the detectives wings but separated to a solo lifestyle, preaching the opposite after leading a life of confusion. He also believed that the author led him back to the detectives purposely because they're lifestyle of battling witty comments based on life was all a hoax for they're teamwork to satisfy the client down the road, helping them to realize both sides and coming to a conclusion on they're own much rather than being told who who they are.

I believe the world we live in is as meaningful as we want it to be. We can look at the world as a dangerous and dark place, or it can be seen as the most safest place in the world. I think whether the world itself is a scary place, it is seen and judged by the people in it, based on the people in it. Nothing makes sense to you unless you can actually try to make sense of it. To show your dedication to understanding something is even a start, and whatever conclusion you make of it is your conclusion, no one is right just like no one is wrong. We pay psychiatrist to analyze us and be told who we are, through discreet answers. that is because they know no more than we do, they listen to the questions we ask and only help us to ask questions we havent thought of yet, not answer our questions.