I just finished watching Garden State.
After thinking about the scene where "Large" fades into the wallpaper, I realized that one of my new Christmas shirts almost fades into the paint in my bedroom.
This movie truly moved me. I've had the experience depicted in the movie where everyone appears to be moving around you. I've had the experience of finding that one person in life who understands you for almost no discernible reason. I've had the experience of feeling like I loved someone so much that life with the most meager, meanest existence possible, if shared with that person, would be just great. And let's not forget, I just went back to Milwaukee and saw an old friend. Seeing small pieces of my life depicted on the screen was both uncanny and cathartic. Now don't get the idea my mother is dead, depressed, or was in a wheelchair or that I've ever been prescribed or taken anti-depresants, rather I identify with the ideas and moods shown in the movie. I've been listening to the soundtrack for a while. It's one of the best soundtracks I think I've ever heard. The songs comfortably fit the mood and sequences of the movie almost as well as they seem to fit my mood at present. When I like something so much, be it a song, a book, a movie, or whatever I wonder if something must be wrong with me or it. I have that feeling about this movie. Seeing this truly great movie makes me even more frustrated by all the truly bad movies I saw last year. Excepting the Lord of the Rings trilogy which is in a movie category all by itself, this is the best movie I've seen since "The Matrix."
This movie truly moved me. I've had the experience depicted in the movie where everyone appears to be moving around you. I've had the experience of finding that one person in life who understands you for almost no discernible reason. I've had the experience of feeling like I loved someone so much that life with the most meager, meanest existence possible, if shared with that person, would be just great. And let's not forget, I just went back to Milwaukee and saw an old friend. Seeing small pieces of my life depicted on the screen was both uncanny and cathartic. Now don't get the idea my mother is dead, depressed, or was in a wheelchair or that I've ever been prescribed or taken anti-depresants, rather I identify with the ideas and moods shown in the movie. I've been listening to the soundtrack for a while. It's one of the best soundtracks I think I've ever heard. The songs comfortably fit the mood and sequences of the movie almost as well as they seem to fit my mood at present. When I like something so much, be it a song, a book, a movie, or whatever I wonder if something must be wrong with me or it. I have that feeling about this movie. Seeing this truly great movie makes me even more frustrated by all the truly bad movies I saw last year. Excepting the Lord of the Rings trilogy which is in a movie category all by itself, this is the best movie I've seen since "The Matrix."
