Jeff Who Lives At Home: This is Fate Calling

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This film could be making a point about determinism, but the focus on choice as the main ingredient  to shaping one's life suggests otherwise. For people who believe everything happens for a reason,  this film is absolutely right for them. Jeff (Jason Segel)  believes signs are everywhere. People must be open to these signs in order to make the right choices. He lives by this belief wholeheartedly.

Fate is actively involved in people's lives; by simply understanding the language of fate, people will  be properly instructed what course to take in life. Signs of  an  interconnectedness is powerfully preached, and is at the core of this film.  Intertwining events leading to a moment of joy and clarity is so well conveyed, it is easy to convert any one who views life as possessing no meaning, into believing, the universe possesses an intention responsible for helping people through life.  Jeff's  belief supports the notion of an ordered universe,  in  tuned with people's happiness and sorrows.  

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It's a "struggle." Fate may be involved, but people must choose. Sometimes it is difficult to understand the message fate sends. Not fully understanding what his fate was, Jeff was awaiting an answer. As a  pothead slacker with no job, living in his mom's basement,  fate sent a message to Jeff , and it was  "Kevin."  Through Jeff's pursuit of understanding this message,  the film makes the point,  reaching one's destiny may require enduring hard times. One may have a destiny that is not destined to be easy.   

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The characters are dealing with adultery, disillusion,  sadness from being unloved, and being misunderstood. How happiness can be drained from people's lives in disappointment, life did not end up as they planned, was delicately treated in one scene featuring Susan Sarandon and Rae Dawg Chong. If there is a plan, if everything happens for a reason, what's the reason for an unfulfilled life ? Fate does not provide reasons, it provides signs, and people must be cognizant to recognize these signs. Again people must choose.This is a beautiful film that makes you feel may be there is a force in the universe looking out for people.