
Russell Captures The Essence of What NOW!
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
IT'S QUITE FUNNY THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE TITLE OF THIS FILM!
Is it I Love Huckabees or I (heart) Huckabees? We never really know and I think that's what the Director really intended.
Being the director of the Gulf-War drama/comedy, "Three Kings" and "Flirting with Disaster", David O. Russell created a montage of dimensional thinking and has come up with a winner in 2004. "I Heart Huckabees" is filled with tri-dimensional people and original dialogue that will leave you thinking and laughing days after seeing this film. Most importantly, it has ideas that most Hollywood executives fear to take on because of our very conventional societal viewpoints.
David O. Russell's claimed that one of the greatest influences for "I Heart Huckabees" was tragedy of 9/11. He is quoted to have said in Film Comment Magazine, "For about two months after 9/11, people were asking really profound questions about reality and existence-and then it was back to business as usual." Indeed this seems to be the case whenever bad things seem to happen in life as people search for the reasoning behind the events and for a meaning to their own existence. Disillusionment often takes place for many affected by tragedy, as has happened to the characters in 'I Heart Huckabees.' From an activist fighting urban sprawl to a firefighter blaming the worlds ills on petroleum hungry nations, 'I Heart Huckabees' presents profound questions about existence with a unique comic approach."
Don't miss this film, but if you are too realistic, a pragmatist, extremely cynical, and have you nose buried somewhere all you life, I recommend you not watch this movie. I've had friends that have just gotten around to watching this and said they hated it. But, for me, I'll go back and watch it again just for the fun of it.
I rank this 4/5 for originality and zany thinking characters.
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