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I see that "I Heart the Huckabees" is meant for a selective audience.
This movie is obviously not for everyone. It's not a comedy that you just put in and sit back and be shut down the old cranium for the two plus hour's. Nope, instead you get the muscle a-cranking. Huckabees requires you to really pay attention and think and take everything in. This film explores several questions mainly dealing with the connection between one person and to the heart, soul, and body of every other thing in existence in an ever-changing world. This film is a big orgy of questioning. And who doesn't like questioning? This film, in its own right, is very original and thought provoking that goes above and beyond any form of typicality of films. <
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>"Huckabees" offers us an impressive cast with Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert (one of my favorite international actress's) and Naomi Watts. Most notable performances by, namely, Dustin Hoffman as it's nice to see him in an exceptional role. He hasn't really been given a great script and chance to portray a great character since probably 1997's "Wag the Dog." It's very nice to see Hoffman play a great character, as Bernard, the quirky husband half of the existential detectives. Also, most notable is the performance of Mark Wahlberg, as Tommy Corn, another client of the detectives that befriends Albert. Tommy is a fire fighter who has his own environmental concerns as he refuses to ride on the fire truck and rather, rides a bike to the fire saying, "We'd all be heroes if we stopped using petroleum." Mark Wahlberg is hilarious in this movie and has his best performance since probably "Boogie Nights" and "Three Kings." However, this movie is much more of an ensemble performance than anything else. The ensemble's performance in this film is terrific and the chemistry between each character is flawless. <
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>The most credit to this movie goes to writer/director David O. Russell. Russell has obviously something going on up there in the cabeza to extract such a story. But the story is amazingly written. The script is out of the ordinary yet genius and comes out as one of the most intelligent films out there and hilarious at that. <
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The most original screenplay since Brazil...which was
...the most original screenplay since Citizen Kane. <
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>At least that's my take. <
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>How do I describe this movie? I can't. It's bizarre in the extreme, but I mean that in a good way. It's like nothing you've ever seen before. It takes screenwriting to a new level. Maybe that sounds a tad pretentious, but sorry, it's true. <
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>I can't imagine how they sold it. To the suits, I mean. I can't even imagine how the script reads, how one can make sense of it on paper. But I'm glad someone did, because the result was a stunningly-original film. <
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>But how do I describe it? I can't. <
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>I'm not the only one with this problem. I read the back of the box in the video store: it made no sense. I read some capsule summaries on the Internet Movie Database: they made no sense either. It's very stream-of-conscious, proceeds more by gut instinct than by logic. Basically, but not entirely, I [Heart] Huckabees is a philosophical discourse where the various existential elements are personified and characterized. And these existential elements get into arguments with each other. If you're the type of person who thinks matters of importance through only to have your own brain argue with itself, to hear little voices competing for your psyche's attention, then you'll understand this movie. If you aren't that type of person, you may find yourself, like many (Roger Ebert, James Berardinelli) feeling on the outside, frustrated that you can't crack the code and get "into" this movie. From the first frame I had no trouble identifyinjg with these extremely strange situations. But many will, and it's understandable. I'll skip all the obvious jokes about how maybe the right drugs will help. This movie is like a drug. And you may have a bad reaction to it. Or not. <
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>But how do I describe it? I can't. Just rent it. The performances are a joy, except maybe oddly for Dustin Hoffman, who never really seems to find a unique voice to match his unique haircut. Paired with Lily Tomlin, she blows him off the screen seemingly without trying. Jason Schwartzman and Mark Wahlberg are wonderful as the screwball main protagonists--Schwartzman in particular shines in this sort of offbeat role. Isabelle Huppert made me laugh just by her what-is-she-doing-here presence, but I couldn't tell you why. Ditto Naomi Watts. <
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>You can read all the reviews you want of this film, but they won't do it justice. You'll either hate it or it will blow your mind. Ebert didn't like it, but he didn't like Brazil either, and for many the same reasons. For him, neither film "made sense." For me, they come from deep within our psyches, and owe more to the irrational than to anything in the neocortex. How well you respond to either might be determined by your imagination, how far it can go, how many different ways you can see something. <
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>But how do I describe it? I can't. <
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>Go see it. <
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