Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
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This movie it gave me every thing I need, it made me smile, laugh, have tears in my eyes, scared and worried its a prescription to cure and became just smily..its a good movie and the director you will see his marks its well directed film, and Simon Pegg thank you sir ! Go watch it, and have a nice day and nice life
Don't get me wrong, there were bits in this movie that were well done, but a lot of it rang hollow. Toni Collette's tear-down of Hector was good (but not much else about her character), Rosamund Pike's warmth, some other details, but then there was this creeping edge of ad agency feel good that undermined any real heart to the movie. He went to China not Tibet? He stays at the Marriott? Travels First Class, his paid for call girl takes him to a street cafe in a poor area? Why? A lot of it didn't add up but looked good for the camera. Some of the scenes were acted well and some of them rang very hollow. Ultimately for the subject the of honest happiness the shallow result left a bad taste.
The movie is what the name suggests. Hector is a psychiatrist who has emotions subdued within him. He leads a measured life in his enclosed world. He is an arm chair traveler dishing out worldly advice to his patients and he realizes it. One of his patients is a psychic who suddenly reconnects him to his long forgotten past. This pushes him out of his comfort zone, on to a journey. A journey to find what happiness means. This takes him to China, some place in Africa and Los Angeles, meeting his old friends and making new ones. The experiences help him experience emotions that he might not have thought he would have felt. He enjoys luxury of city life, calmness of monks, helping those in need, coming face to face with death, feeling of completeness with family etc.. On the way he makes notes of things that make people happy. The final list of 15 things is not something that can make everyone happy, rather it is beautifully something that summarizes his journey. If you like the movie, you would be able to recall his journey whenever you read the list. It is a feel good movie, not awe- inspiring one that will change your life in any way. But it shows that you have an obligation to lead a happy life and might move you to seek out for what is it that makes you happy and assures you that its not all that complicated.
I love a movie that has a clear story and that captures me from the beginning to the end, displaying a whole wide spectrum of human emotions and reactions in different situations. This one has it all. The story, the actors (chemistry between them is great), the locations... a beautiful work of art. I was captured by the frankness of emotion displayed, by Simon Pegg's goofy way of acting and interacting with his colleagues. The atmosphere of this movie is something to be treasured and I am sure that I will watch it again. It certainly gave me a much needed respite from all action-overloaded Hollywood spectacles competing for the throne of: most guys killed, biggest explosion ever seen, most cars destroyed, most expensive actors in the business used. Big thanks to all of you working on this movie.