Who Is This Guy

So far I'm getting the feeling that Meursault is very unfeeling and nonchalant about life. I feel like his attitude is okay. I don't mind, in fact I would actually prefer Meursault's view on life to the view that the detectives had in I Heart Huckabees. I think that being detached helps people to think more clearly on the things that are actually happening and not just life as a whole.

Meursault to me seems like he has a clear head and isn't letting emotions get in the way. But in a way being detached isn't such a good thing because he can not truly feel. This might be helping to deal with the death of his mother, the feeling of being detached might be his way of keeping a distance with life so that things never really touch him.

I think that it is a safety thing here and I can truly relate with his mood. I feel like in order to think straight sometimes we need a clear head, sometimes we need to not feel. Meursault has a gray look on life. Like everything is the same color and everything looks the same therefore everything evokes the same emotion from him, no matter what the situation.

When we did the stranger activity in the park it was interesting to see how people act. I never really pay attention to people in the street unless I'm walking with people but besides that no. I feel like I could be detached when I was observing people. It seemed that everyone was detached anyway into their own little bubble.

Huckabees Post

There are things that we do that make sense and there are things that don't make sense. I think that only you can determine what makes sense and what doesn't. In the movie there were things that made sense and things that didn't...i guess.

I think that in the end we do matter. I think depending on mood a belief like that may change. I feel that as we go deeper and deeper in to this topic I am becoming more and more nonchalant towards life and this idea of us mattering. And these assignments feel a bit redundant.

Bernard says "Everything is the same, even if it’s different.” which can be true depending on point of view. In my life I like to believe that what I do matters that who I meet and what I say matter. I want to feel like there is a point to life. I also feel that we can be easily manipulated.

Like Dawn, one minute she was the shining face of Huckabees and then one small 5 minute talk and she drastically revamped her life. Which was odd. Is that all it takes for us to completely change our lifestyle?

I feel that if you question life to much you become paranoid and you believe anything. I think that when it comes to life that it is best to just roll with the punches and that is exactly what all the people in the movie were not doing.

Bernard was looking too hard at his life to the point where he thought that something meaningless was meaningful. But that brought him to meet his other which ended up being great thing for him. Which brings me back to how somethings are meaningless and somethings are. But everything is connected.

At the end of the day everything does matter, the little things the big things and everything in between. I just think that there is no reason to go crazy about one thing in particular. Spread everything out in an even matter and let thing coincidences come and go as they please and see where they end up.

But of course that theory also poses the question of predetermination. Is all we do part of something that has already happened? And if the answer is yes then that poses the question of do we matter?

Then we end up back at square one. And I give up. Everything matters and don't think about it my philosophy.