Movie: The Garden State

I recently watched the movie Garden State. The main characters were two of my favorite actors, Zach Braff and Natalie Portman.

The movie takes the viewer through a series of quirky, and strange events, that help keep the viewer engaged with the story. Throughout the movie, Zach’s character, Andrew Largemen, is coping with the loss of his mother, and is also rediscovering himself as he goes cold turkey from a life of psychotropic drugs (prescribed by his father since he was ten).

I don’t really want to review the movie, I just want to encourage those who haven’t seen it to go out and see it. The story gives great commentary to our desire to be unique, our connection to our parents, what we truly seek out of life, and the numbing effects of our culture. I particularly liked the end of the movie, where (without giving too much away) the two main characters throw out conventional reasoning, and choose to follow their heart instead instead of the logic of their mind.