I heart huckabees

[Gamplayerx]

I just watched this film.  Now will somebody please explain it to me?

[Beefy]

A bunch of zany people with different and zany ways of experiencing their lives run around and do zany stuff.

[Gamplayerx]

Thanks, Beefy.

[Beefy]

Honestly, it depends on how much you want to read into it.  It can be a simplistic as I just wrote out, giving the film's pretensions.  Or you can truly examine the more existential questions the film is trying to deal with about how we interact with our lives.  I thought it was a funny film but I choose not to give it a lot of weight beyond that.

[Beefy]

...they gladly risk foolishness to plunge into the muck of human existence. The film is loud, messy, aggressively in your face and generally played for the back row in the theater, and it doesn't offer up solutions, tender any comfort or rejoice in the triumph of the human spirit. All we can do, says Mr. Russell, is keep pushing the rock back uphill.  Clicky

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[Gamplayerx]

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It was weird.  Strange and funny, but also weird.

Also, I can't decide if Jason Schwartzman odd looking or not.

[Dry then Catch]

The epitome of the movie:  for all their New Age pseduo intellectualism, some half wit college schmo is doing some professor in the ass in the mud.  Its truly a piece of post-Dadist absurdism mixed in with the general ennui and faceitious world view of our generation.  Nonetheless, its not quite nihilistic, at the end despite all the characters flaws everyone seems reasonably happy and well off. 

[Dry then Catch]

also i thought it was great that by Jason Schwartzman and the french teacher having sex they are literally "fucking over"  Mark Wahlberg's character.   

[Gamplayerx]

I just kept cringing at the thought of how much mud they must've gotten in their mouths.

[vampirepenguin]

I watched and I was all.."I missed something" I need to see it again...possibly after I read up on the various philosophies mentioned in the film..

[Alice]

Also, I can't decide if Jason Schwartzman odd looking or not.

Yes, he is odd looking.

[sugar_grrl]

I watched and I was all.."I missed something" I need to see it again...possibly after I read up on the various philosophies mentioned in the film..

Agreed.  Normally I don't have the urge to go do philosophical research after watching a movie, but that urge surfaced after I heart huckabees (I surpressed it though...had to take some pepto later...)