MOVIES : Garden State
This is a nice little film about a guy who decides to stop taking Lithium after he started using it at age 10. It delves into suppressed emotions (something I know a lot about :) and relationships with fathers and, well, life. It was written/directed/stared in by the lead actor from 'Scrubs', and has a similar zany feel.
It is life affirming, full of love and forgiveness, and entertaining too. It hits all it's marks, but somehow just doesn't do the ideas and messages it is trying to communicate justice; I didn't get very emotionally attached so appreciated the ideas on an intellectual level rather than an emotive one. (Maybe that's suppressed emotions again)
I was also thrown in a few scenes by the lead actor speaking at a hundred miles a New York minute while the quiet little town he comes from is lumbering along at its idillic rate. Better than a lot of films out there, but I just wanted more!
I want a WWII motorbike too.
It is life affirming, full of love and forgiveness, and entertaining too. It hits all it's marks, but somehow just doesn't do the ideas and messages it is trying to communicate justice; I didn't get very emotionally attached so appreciated the ideas on an intellectual level rather than an emotive one. (Maybe that's suppressed emotions again)
I was also thrown in a few scenes by the lead actor speaking at a hundred miles a New York minute while the quiet little town he comes from is lumbering along at its idillic rate. Better than a lot of films out there, but I just wanted more!
I want a WWII motorbike too.
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