Huckabees Blog Post Assigment

Do we live in a World that is meaningful and makes sense?

Having meaning in our lives is essential to pursue some type of purpose or dreams in our lives. And this is because these ARE meaningful to us. But how do these things become meaningful to us? Who decided what was meaningful and what wasn't? What is a meaningful world?

Because these questions tend to be too overwhelming and extremely confusing some people decide to live a meaningless life. And it is meaningless that it is meaningless, otherwise it would be too depressing. Meanwhile the ones that create meaning into their surroundings and live by it are often finding different ways of managing all these in a way that would bring them happiness. Both "methods" are practiced with the purpose of living better along with others. Each person decides what is best for himself and is entitled to his opinions. Living a life meaningfully or meaningless is irrelevant as soon as that wanted peace of mind and happiness is attained. The movie I love Huckabees is a representation of this idea, and focuses more on a debate between these two different methods to live. It is up to the mean character to decide what is best for him after experiencing for OPINIONS on how to live life.

The movie begins with the quote "what am I doing, what am I doing?I don't know what I am doing. I am doing the best that I can. Now this is all I can ask to myself. Was that good enough? Is my work doing any good? Is anybody paying attention?.... nothing in this world make any sense to me." Just like we all do, the main character of this movie, Albert, has so many different questions about life. And he clearly does not have the answer for his own questions he keeps on asking himself, just like the most of us. Being this confused leads a person to seek for help. It is a natural response that all people do.

The first please Albert assists to claims to be an existential organization that helps people learn something significant about their lives. These people argue that the world is connected, and that everything and everyone have the same value. For example, the Eiffel tower being the same as a hamburger inside the big blanket of the universe. However, the main main purpose these company has towards him is to make him forget about the identity that Divides him from the rest of the world, so the he can feel part of it and everything he wished or wanted was not desired any longer because he already had it. In other words Albert has everything he needs to live happily he is simply not aware of it.

The alternative point of view Albert encounters is somewhat the opposite of the one previously mentioned. It discusses that nothing is connected and life has not meaning by itself. He discovers this through his "other", Tommy, who absolutely believes in this idea because of his personal experience with life. Tommy introduces him to this perspective and the woman who began this conflict helps Albert learn something about himself he ignored his entire life.
Although Albert eventually agreed to pursue this perspective of meaninglessness he still had to be aware that he will be dragged back to human drama and desires. "From pure being to human suffering."

Albert somehow realized at the end of the movie that perhaps we all may be connected because we see each other in other people. However, in reality there is no real connection, we simply make it up. We bond to other people and feel their pain because we have experienced it before. Seeing the whole situation from this perspective then who of these two "methods" of living is the correct one? "One is dark and the other one is not dark enough...One is on one extreme and the other one on the other extreme... Two overlapping fraction philosophies born out of that one pain." Albert did find a way of life, but he created it himself.
Isn't that one's task in life anyways?