Huckabees Blog Post

I believe that we live in a world that has meaning and makes sense but we don't live our everyday lives trying to make sense of it. In the movie, I <3 Huckabees, Albert is looking for meaning in his life. The idea that nothing in life matter is one theory his coincidences and the idea that everything in your life matters and is connected is another. In the end he realizes that both ideas connect with each other. The theory I took out of the movie was that life is meaningless but you can make meaning of it since your stick living it everyday. This is a mixture of the ideas the movie proposed and Banach's lectures.

In this life, society takes away from individuality. For example, they way people dress so they can be accepted among their peers. In the movie, Dawn is the icon of the Huckabees. When she finds her true self, she realizes that the way they were telling her to be wasn’t who she really was. The Huckabees Company symbolized society. Dawn was living her day meaninglessly because she was not being true to herself. She snapped out of it and started to become happy with who she was when she was able to express the real her. It was not accepted by the Huckabees. Now she had a choice, to go back to being the icon of the Huckabees or to continue being happy being herself. She choice being herself. To me, this is like snapping out of the meaningless pattern and finding meaning in your life; being authentic. Like Banach said, you can only be truly happy when you find happiness within yourself.

It’s interesting how Tommy says, “Once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing left to lose,” because if you think about it , its almost like saying , if life is meaningless , might as well try to making your own meaning of it. He goes about following this idea in the movie. Like when he is hitting himself with the “pure ball thingy”. He believes life is meaningless yet he finds outlets to find “purity” and happiness. Tommy also said “How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?” This is so true. If everything was going good for you, you would not think to ask what the purpose in my life is or what the meaning is. So why is it that only when things are bad is that people want to know the point? I think it’s because sadness is an emotion that people do not think they should be experiencing so when they do, they can’t handle it and try to find reasons to blame instead of embracing that they can even connect with the world in forms of emotions. Interesting theory?

My favorite part of the movie was when Albert explains that he can not use the church to answer his questions of life. The questions were “if the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?” I love this part because it is such a deep question. One I never thought of myself but now am curious to know the answer. This is something I’m personally taking out into my own life to see what I can find by exploring this question.