Monday, July 04, 2005

We watched Garden State yesterday, a movie I would 100% recommend. The charm of the film is its honesty, it's willingness to explore a broad range of real issues from the complications of family life to the systematised and legal 'drugging' of our western societies. It seems to mimic the span of emotions that your average human experiences from day to day.

An interesting concept that arises gravitates around the issue of Home as aspiration, or figment of memory, rather than reality. Andrew (Zach Braff) hypothesizes that maybe family are just people who long for "the same imaginary place." This line of thought is brought to a satisfying conclusion at the end, but I won't spoil it for you...
(Disclaimer: I didn't re-read this post before publishing it the first time round, so there was unforgivable repitition. Sorry!)