How am I not myself?
Oct. 23rd, 2004 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enthusiastickI'm just all over the place lately. And this weekend I'm taking care of my baby sister while my parents are out of town. This is good for my overall sanity (my mother and I are in need of a break from one another) but bad for getting me back on track because it encourages me to, well, live like a college student again. I have very little self-discipline that way.
I caught I Heart Huckabees yesterday, thanks to Jon Horowitz showing up with his girlfriend and driving me to see it. That's in spite of the fact that I gave him terrible directions that got us where we were going by the most circuitous route imaginable. Circumnavigation is fun, but not particularly efficient. So we missed the opening credits and apparently the first five minutes or so of the movie, but you get a lot of recap so it wasn't a problem. I'm definitely a huge fan of this movie, although I'm the first to admit that has a lot to do with the fact that its the kind of absurdist surrealism (or possibly surrealist absurdism) that I'm a huge fan of. I also agree with a chunk of the philosophy the movie endorses, and this is, let me tell you, a very philosophical movie.
But regardless of whether or not you like surrealism and philosophy I would say you ought to see this movie. The cast is fantastic and the performances are great. Jason Schwartzman delivered as a leading man in a way I felt I hadn't seen from him before, but personally I thought the real show-stealer was Mark Wahlberg. It may have just been good casting but I was blown away. Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman are also good, although neither gets enough screentime to really showcase their oddball characters, which is disappointing although maybe for the best.
I caught I Heart Huckabees yesterday, thanks to Jon Horowitz showing up with his girlfriend and driving me to see it. That's in spite of the fact that I gave him terrible directions that got us where we were going by the most circuitous route imaginable. Circumnavigation is fun, but not particularly efficient. So we missed the opening credits and apparently the first five minutes or so of the movie, but you get a lot of recap so it wasn't a problem. I'm definitely a huge fan of this movie, although I'm the first to admit that has a lot to do with the fact that its the kind of absurdist surrealism (or possibly surrealist absurdism) that I'm a huge fan of. I also agree with a chunk of the philosophy the movie endorses, and this is, let me tell you, a very philosophical movie.
But regardless of whether or not you like surrealism and philosophy I would say you ought to see this movie. The cast is fantastic and the performances are great. Jason Schwartzman delivered as a leading man in a way I felt I hadn't seen from him before, but personally I thought the real show-stealer was Mark Wahlberg. It may have just been good casting but I was blown away. Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman are also good, although neither gets enough screentime to really showcase their oddball characters, which is disappointing although maybe for the best.
