Huckabees Blog Post Assignment

Hmmm, now that’s a question to think deeply about. Well I think it all depends on the individual. For me I think that life is mainly meaningful. We are here to live our life and learn about new things everyday. For some our lives are planned out for us; for others we have to dig our own paths and make room for ourselves in this world. I think it also depends on what community you are living in and what the rules are. For example I live in the U.S.A. like many my use in life is to go to school, after finishing school go to college and major in what I’m interested in and then go on from there. This is what it’s like for many other students that live in the same area as me. I feel like life is pretty meaningful for me because I am given one chance to live this life and I have goals that I want to accomplish in my life.


In I <3 Huckabees Tommy’s girlfriend states: “If nothing matters, how can I matter?” I disagree with this quote because I feel like everything does matter and everything happens for a reason. I think that everyone makes an impact to this world bad or good. Even though these impacts may vary in size we are still here and make our life meaningful. Everything does matter to me and this is why I think that living this life is meaningful. Everyone matters in this world because most of us are here to do something either if it’s for ourselves or for others. If some of us were to be vanished from this world than others would be able to feel a change in many ways.


“Everything is connected and everything matters! Every atom of your body has been forged in the furnace of the sun, isn’t that cool?” says Bernard in I <3 Huckabees. I agree with this quote because we are all connected to each other which makes each and every one of us meaningful. I think that some of us may say that we do not at all matter in this world; we don’t think that we make any kind of impact. Well I think this is sort of connects to suicidal thoughts because those are the kind of thoughts one may have when considering their life. If some of us were to be taken away from this world then wouldn’t our family and close friends mourn for us? If there is someone that would remember you after you were to be vanished from this planet, then I think that you matter a whole lot in this world. Let’s say if you were not to be remembered by anyone and nobody had any kind of feelings towards you than I would say that you were not living a meaningful life. This would be pretty sad because if nobody seems to remember you in this world than what impact did you make? It would have been better if you didn’t exist at all…am I right?


I think that the reason this movie was a comedy was because many people may have mixed feelings about the idea of living a meaningful life. I don’t blame them, this is a pretty big concept to think about and each individual has their own way to interpret it. I feel like the movie I <3 Huckabees was created to make this question be thought about more. We all just seem to live our life day to day like robots doing all the work that we are supposed to do. We have responsibilities and have places to where we belong. We never seem to ask our self these big questions; I guess not many of us get the chance or time to do so. By creating this movie all of the viewers were able to connect to this main idea and compare it to themselves. I feel like this helps all of us understand why we are here living this life and why we are chosen to live it because it isn’t our decision to be here. Why do most of us seem to accept the offer of living this life?