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I Heart Huckabees

Date: May 31 2005

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

What would you say if your friends asked you to see a film about philosophy? Do you think you might get bored?
This week’s film lesson is about a film called I Heart Huckabees, a film about philosophy and quantum physics. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Steph

Derek

Steph: So what do you know about I Heart Huckabees?

Derek: I know it’s got a really interesting title.

Steph: It does. Yeah. I mean, you’d think if you saw it that it was I Love Huckabees, but I Heart Huckabees is a pretty cool title.

Derek: Yeah, it is catchy and intriguing. Maybe makes you wanna see it.

Steph: Yeah. I actually saw it last week and it was pretty good.

Derek: It was pretty good. That’s good. It looked like it was kind of a funny movie maybe.

Steph: It was a little bit quirky. The guy, the main character, he ran into this other guy, like, three times, on accident. And he was looking for a deeper meaning in his meetings with him.

Derek: That’s sounds pretty cool.

Steph: Yeah. So he hired some existential investigators.

Derek: Existential investigators. That’s a nice title.

Steph: Yeah. I thought so, too. It was pretty interesting. So you should see it.

Derek: I might check it out.

Steph: Ok.

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Discussion

To be honest, I didn’t know what this movie was about until I was in the middle of watching it. The cover didn’t give away the storyline.
The movie itself was both entertaining and educational. There was a pretty good plot and scenes where some really deep ideas about existential philosophy are explained.
Have you heard of this movie? Would you go see it?