Go See Garden State

From my blog

You have to see this movie. Even if you're not from Jersey, which, the movie ironically has little if anything to do with, (perhaps only in the fact that parts of the movie are depressing, as New Jersey is often reputed to be. Who knows?)

Here's what Zach Braff, star of Scrubs, writer-director and lead actor in this movie writes about what this movie is about:

"What Garden State's really about is how short life is. And how we get caught up in so many entanglements and insecurities and worries and obsessions and trivial arguments while life races right by us shaking it's head at how seriously we take ourselves. Keep in mind that the sun's gonna burn out in about a million years and truly nothing will have mattered."

Indeed.

I was not expecting a movie that would make me think when I went to see it.

As Mr. Braff says, the intention of the movie was to demonstrate how silly it is how seriously we take life and its trivialities, I was struck by how simply it treats life and many of life's depressing circumstances. One of the lessons of the movie, as said by Natalie Portman's character is to laugh at life, which of course is good advice to follow, but considering some of the circumstances of the people's lives in the movie, out of the context of this movie one would find it hard to laugh, though we should anyway.

The entire movie is very simple, without much of a plot or story. The gems in this movie are the dialogue, the characters, and, dare I say it, the acting. Natalie Portman is simply amazing. As is her character. If living through 15 years of a drugged up existence as Braff's character does is necessary to meet her character, well sign me up.

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