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This movie has been out for a while, but I recently saw it in my local Video King and rented it.. So, when I put in the DVD, it started out really “slow”, I almost took it out. But as it got further and further into the movie, I really liked it. But, something has been confusing me, the begining. When it shows the people in the plane about to crash, everyone is crying and panicing, except for Andrew (The main character). Was it like a forshadowing for what he trys to do at the end of the movie? Also, Did he live in Japan or China in the movie? It shows him working in a Vietemise Restaurant… Did you like this movie?
I didn’t like this movie, it didn’t hold my attention at all. It was weird, and the characters were odd.
I enjoyed Garden State a lot. Is it weird? A little.
The scene at the beginning of the movie was just a daydream in Andrew’s mind. It was symbolic of his life — things happening all around him, excitement, commotion, scary and difficult emotions — yet he felt none of them. He was numb to the world around him, probably because of the drugs he regularly took (prescribed by his therapist Dad… another thinly veiled analogy for the emotional baggage we inherit from our parents).
His old friends from high-school also numbed themselves in different ways; drugs, alchohol and material possessions.
The girl he met (Natalie Portman) helped him wake up and live again. Being truly alive means sometimes feeling pain and dealing with difficult emotions as well as the good feelings. To me, the movie was about running towards your problems, not away from them.
Oh, and he lived in LA and just happened to work in an Vietnamese restaurant. He was an actor, and as we’ve seen on countless other TV shows and movies, actors all work as waiters or waitresses between jobs. 🙂
I love the soundtrack for the movie. A fantastic, eclectic selection, including a great song by Colin Haye (formerly of the band Men at Work).
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