This makes Hector take a close look at his own life and start thinking about what makes him happy. Does he really do anything that makes him happy? Does he even know what makes him happy? Is he happy in his life? Can he be happier?
For a person who is solving other people’s lives, Hector realises that he isn’t really all that happy!
Thus the psychiatrist in Hector starts brooding, the more he thinks the more obsessed he becomes with the question – what makes people happy!
He's so hung up with this question that he decides find the answer. And for that he decides to take a trip to far flung locations to find out what makes there people. It's a subject of research for him, and a personal journey as well.
The two places that he chooses to go to are China and Africa where he has some minor adventures, and one more major near death experience. He meets interesting people... a prostitute, businessmen, drug lord, killers, gay doctors, ex girlfriend, and a happiness researcher... and after all this he becomes a better, more wiser man.
Hector And The Search For Happiness is about Hector’s journey and the people he means he meets and the things he
learns from them. As the story progresses Hector starts a list of things that make people happy and keeps on adding to it after each adventure. And he, and we, realise that happiness and its causes are universal the world over.
Slowly Hector grows more and more mature, learned, and happier. At the end of the journey he is a better psychiatrist and a more contented man, and he does the one thing that he should have done a long time ago, and that makes him truly happy.
This may sound like a cliche but the book is better than the movie because while reading you can linger on the list that Hector makes and see if any of those points make you happy as well.
I would suggest, if you can, do read the book first, then watch the movie.
Speaking only for the movie, it’s quite alright as Simon Pegg plays a decent Hector, but some of the cliched characterizations didn't work so well, specially how the black family in Africa are shown to party and instantly become friends with Hector.
But still, despite its flaws, this is a significant creation and one should read the book and then watch the movie as I did.
Because I am happier person than I was after reading Hector's list.
Hector And The Search For Happiness
Thus the psychiatrist in Hector starts brooding, the more he thinks the more obsessed he becomes with the question – what makes people happy!
He's so hung up with this question that he decides find the answer. And for that he decides to take a trip to far flung locations to find out what makes there people. It's a subject of research for him, and a personal journey as well.
The two places that he chooses to go to are China and Africa where he has some minor adventures, and one more major near death experience. He meets interesting people... a prostitute, businessmen, drug lord, killers, gay doctors, ex girlfriend, and a happiness researcher... and after all this he becomes a better, more wiser man.
Hector And The Search For Happiness is about Hector’s journey and the people he means he meets and the things he
Slowly Hector grows more and more mature, learned, and happier. At the end of the journey he is a better psychiatrist and a more contented man, and he does the one thing that he should have done a long time ago, and that makes him truly happy.
This may sound like a cliche but the book is better than the movie because while reading you can linger on the list that Hector makes and see if any of those points make you happy as well.
I would suggest, if you can, do read the book first, then watch the movie.
Speaking only for the movie, it’s quite alright as Simon Pegg plays a decent Hector, but some of the cliched characterizations didn't work so well, specially how the black family in Africa are shown to party and instantly become friends with Hector.
But still, despite its flaws, this is a significant creation and one should read the book and then watch the movie as I did.
Because I am happier person than I was after reading Hector's list.
Hector And The Search For Happiness
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