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...sure why. Sadly, we never care. The root of Albert’s malaise, I think, is that he has sold out. He has entered into a partnership with Huckabees, a chain of K-Mart-like stores, to throw some muscle behind his coalition to save a local wetland. Russell??s sly appropriation of American corporate-speak provide the best moments in the Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they are “pro-active and action-oriented...
...David O. Russell??s new film I Heart Huckabees is a manic rumination on the fruitless search for the meaning of life. So how come he looks so relaxed...
...It’s a cocktail of zen, Sartre, and nihilism,” Russell says. He talks of the film’s political message against corporate behemoths like Warner Brothers, the studio that is refusing to distribute Russell??s new documentary about the current War in Iraq. But he demurs from answering queries about the film’s relationship with 9/11, an incident that is specifically referred to by Wahlberg’s character...
...stream of obscenities; in person, he makes somewhat less of an impression. He balances his slight, thin build on a couch, sipping a glass of water and at one point sucking on a lemon. Schwartzman’s conversation—when he gets a word in edgewise amidst Russell??s freewheeling monologues—swings wildly from dull stories from the Huckabees set to an extended riff on the legacy of that ’80’s classic, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. His comments are intended to promote Huckabees, but their chaotic...
...Like Russell??s film, Schwartzman seems unable to fully articulate his ideas, and the result is a cluttered mess of mixed metaphors and hollow insights...