i [heart] huckabees
So I figured the title of the post would be able to set you up for just exactly what I was gonna write about today. I saw i [heart] huckabees last night. Its one of the few movies I have ever seen where upon leaving the theater I really felt genuinely good about the universe and everything around me. I can’t really explain why this happened. I really can’t explain anything about the movie that gave me that feeling. The convergence of all of the events in the movie just snuck up on me, and when the credits rolled, i felt damn good. The movie itself was just really deep. It has a lot of stuff to think about, and just a whole lot going on in it, that I know I haven’t caught, and I’ll be thinking about for days. Overall, the acting in the movie was excellent.

I do know one thing about seeing that movie. I saw exactly the reason why i kept on having people tell me specifically that I should see this movie. I can’t really express how well done and thought provoking the movie was. On a second level it almost seems a little simple to me, with the philosophy it presents. In the end, yes it is a philosophical type movie. It makes you think about existence (but then again you should know this if you read something about the movie and it talks about a group of existential detectives). I say simple because alot of the things it brings forward are things that I think I’ve thought about and wrestled with for a very long time in my search through these sorts of philosophical issues. I’m no philosopher, by any stretch of the means, but I do from time to time delve into my own thoughts and others on what the heck everything means in that sorta sense.

I think watching that movie was well timed with events in my life lately. Sometimes you need that thing that makes you realize nothing really ever happens out perfectly but it does happen for a reason, and in the end something better can come out of it. Maybe. Sometimes you gotta put some time into things at a different level than you really were thinking, and sometimes it really makes much more sense to do it that way after having it made apparent. You just gotta know what you want. I think i do, and sometimes thats a scary thing.