Friday, November 12, 2004

I Heart Huckabees
Premodern Help for Postmodern Times
Is Mark Wahlberg the real existential detective?

Premodern Help for Postmodern Times
Is Mark Wahlberg the real existential detective?
Nicely written. Somehow both an easy read and a mental exercise at once. Mozart would be proud.
Lets hope there are more like Smitty.
After reading, Matt Kirby’s insightful interpretation, I went back and saw Huckabee’s a second time. Like Eternal Sunshine, the second time was better than the first. What I liked most (besides Hoffman’s and Tomlin’s fabulous tonge-in cheek performances) was the marrying of modern French Philosophy (Isabelle H) and older French Philosophy (Hoffman and Tomlin). And, finally, a performance that Mark Wahlberg sank his teeth into!