Rango, Kierkegaard, and the Search for Self — Part 1The Lonely Lizard and the Melancholy Dane

Reader beware, spoilers abound!

Rango, the 2011 film written by John Logan, is a great movie. It is a about a lizard in search of his identity. Sure, the movie can be interpreted a few different ways: a story of the oppression of the poor by the powerful, the suppression of the masses by opiate of religion, the making and meaning of a hero. But for me, it is really about a question that haunts all of us a...