Film: Hector And The Search For Happiness
I’ve seen the film yesterday and I can’t recommend it at all. It is based on the first novel of the Hector trilogy by François Lelord but some of the literary voice and motifs simply do not work in this film and make it very annoying. Main character Hector is a midlife crisis psychologist and decides from one day to the other, that he wants to give up his comfy London life to find his place in the world and an answer to the question: What makes us (truly) happy? The very well-known feeling of wanderlust, teamed up with thirst for adventures and the Ok-I’m-Gone-Bye-Bye mentality, is part of every student’s life. In Hector’s case it becomes part of a mid-40, who slowly but surely realises, that the fast track of life (university, work, work, work and making money) is not the key nor does it bring absolute fulfillment. So, let’s talk about Hector. He has some sort of childhood trauma, which now and again appears, but feels always out of context and is never explained. It is just thro...