As a sophomore in college (four years back now) I had an amazing time watching
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Huckabees under the influence of an ounce of Morning Glory seeds. Granted, on a dose that high even getting up to get a drink of water is an epic experience, cluttered with fractal dragons and Freudian infantile regression. Furthermore, the movie in question is quite the mindfuck even when sober.
The details are, as you would imagine, a wee bit fuzzy. However, I recall talking with my friends (also tripping on the seeds, albeit lower dosages) about how the film was a mixture of the Tao Te Ching, the Book of Revelations, the Bahatvid Ghita (sp?) and various Old Testament texts, all acted out through Jungian archetypes. However, this all became irrelevant when Mark Whalberg's nose became like a giant snake, wrapping around him, the screen and eventually me. For some reason I found this utterly hilarious, and began rolling on the floor in ecstatic laughter. From there I watched much of the movie from the floor, staring at the ceiling and looking at fractals generated on it by light from the television. Eventually I got back up into my seat, catching the ending of the film, which I found utterly brilliant and life affirming, convincing me (at the time) to propose to the hot girl who lived several dorm rooms down from us at that very instant. However, this thought was quickly forgotten as the credit's rolled, turning into a massive lion that ended up engulfing the entire room, leading to full dissociative ego death. I came to a few minutes later and we all stared at the blank screen for about a half hour longer, convinced that there were secret messages encoded by the filmmakers and that the whole film was a guide to the psychedelic experience (which it actually works pretty well as.
Anyhow, I digress.
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Huckabees + psychedelics = incredible mindfuck of a time. Chalk it up to the follies of youth (it goes without saying that there was some serious puking going on over the course of that night) but I'll be damned if it wasn't a riproaring good time
