Life is hard, and so is sitting through this film.

Rating: 1/10 (20 October 2005)

I started watching Garden State with high hopes, sadly it turned out that the opening scene summed the movie up quite well,It was like being on a plane about to go crash.
The story is quite simple an aimless 20 something analyzes his life after his mother's death with the help of an equally misguided 20 something they fall in love but figure out life is hard. Yippee. To get to the meat of it all Garden State is full of a lot of bad things bad writing, bad acting, bad directing, and bad music (no the shins will not change your life).
I guess what really bothered me was the shallow, single brush stroke, clichéd characters that rounded out a boring cast in an equally uninspired script. I read this is supposed to be my generation, but I most certainly hope not.
To sum it up simply life is hard, for everyone. Drugs and misdirection do not define you and as demonstrated by this film it certainly doesn't make you deep and though provoking. To not be all negative there was a self pleasuring dog that well in the end made it all worthwhile.