About Schmidt

Barbara recently posted about this movie and I thought that she had some excellent points. Here are a few excerpts from her post:

Jack Nicholson sure did a great job with his character, Warren Schmidt. It was not a typical Jack N. role. You could SEE the emptiness in Warren you could practically feel his weariness. His life was probably typical of millions of people all over the world that live their life to pay the bills and then retire and say “What the hell did I just do for the last 60 years?.” He didn’t like what he saw when he looked back – it was pretty devoid of meaning. He even realized at one point that he’d pretty much taken his wife and daughter for granted.

The end of the movie left me wondering if he used the remainder of his life to “make a difference” or if he just kept doing the same old routine till his time was up.

I confess, I actually feel envious sometimes of people I know that go through life not caring whether or not they make a difference, or how they influence those around them. They seem perfectly content cruising through life on auto pilot accumulating “stuff” and having a pleasant existence. I wish I didn’t care so much about things that I have no control over – like what can I do to stop injustice, violence, poverty, and all the things that create needy, hurt and oppressed people?

Check out the rest of Barbara's post here.