I Heart Huckabees

I Heart Huckabees

Doing a review on a film from the genre Comedy, which is very rare given the very few quality comedy movies.

Plot:

Young man is confused about life and seeks help from an older professional couple.

Review:

First comedy review. I wouldn't mind more at all but they are very hard to come by. Actually laughing is not something I often experience when watching the so called comedies that come out. It just feels like everything is either a There's something about Mary film or it is a movie that either has Adam Sandler or Ben Stiller in it and we all know how that goes.

Anyway, this a corky,unexpected and one of a kind "existential" comedy. Manages to poke fun at the pretentious approach people tend to have towards asking philosophical questions, or existensialism in short, but at the same time wants to ask those same questions, somewhat sincerely. A very bold and possibly self-defeating approach but it actually works and is a very enjoyable one and a half hour or so that is the I Heart Huckabees.

Poet/activist/destroyer of worlds Albert (Jason Schwartzman) experiences a very strange meeting and is quite puzzled about it. He decides to contact Vivian and Bernard ( here played by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) who are self proclaimed Existential detectives. They are hired to thoroughly explore the everyday life and psyche of said young man. Albert is paired up with firefighter Mark Wahlberg, Tommy in the movie, as they seem to be on the same path towards answers. Their investigation into the real issues that Albert has leads to two new characters entering the film. A couple by the names Brad (Jude Law) and Dawn (Naomi Watts). Brad is the corporate Albert is trying to work against in his philantropical work. Bernard and Vivian discover as they go on that, as everyone else, this couple have their own issues that needs to be faced. Sounds like a mess? Mess has negative connotations and thats not something im interested in associating this film with.

Tommy gets to be the messenger for one of the two main perspectives presented in this movie concerning life; the viewpoints of an author named Caterine Vauban (Isabell Huppert) which basically is about the world as a place of chaos and ultimately something negative and the only way to approach it is to accept it. The viewpoint of Bernard and Vivian is the complete opposite, that everything in the world is connected and that it has a purpose, it being of a positive nature. Whether or not either of them is right isn't really important in the film, it only seems to be focusing on asking and raising questions. Got me on a good mood despite the quite "heavy" theme and as with all the films I review, I recommend it.

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