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I Heart Huckabees <Tab/>In David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees, a twenty-something environmentalist, Albert (Jason Schwartzman), is plagued by a series of a coincidences involving a very tall black man who seems to just turn up everywhere. Albert, who finds a business card in a loaner suit, calls upon the help of Existential Detectives Vivian (Lily Tomlin) and Bernard Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman). <Tab/>All of the …

…most prominent motifs. Throughout the movie, characters find themselves confronted by the choice of Catherine's nihilism and the Jaffes' belief that we are all a part of one another. In the end, the characters find that extremes only lead to confusion and that even ideas overlap and connect. The movie can be basically summed up in one thought that is left on the screen at the end of the credits: "How am I not Myself?"