Subtle Humour VS Mainstream Comedy: Owen Wilson ,whos side are you choosing?.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2005)

I am worthy to give Garden State my applause and my two thumbs up. Zach Braff delicately wrote and directed this film in such away that parallels the lining of both comic realism and dramatic intensity- he doesn't bore you, but however, convinces you into the film- now, tell me what many comedies can do that?
Although this film proves that indie-comedy (Lost In Translation,Royal Tenenbaums,Eternal Sunshine, American Beauty,The Life Aquatic,Sideways, Napoleon Dynamite, Secretary...etc)is much ahead of the mega-hits that dominate the box office charts annually,because of their golden classic touch and millennium appeal; Garden State has proved not only that it has surpassed other films that have failed incessantly to speak to our generation (Igby Goes Down, American Pie) but it has also shaped a linear way for low rated comedies to come out of the corner and into the light just as The Graduate, did for the comedies of the 60's and Annie Hall did for Comedies of the 70's .Although this film didn't garner any Oscar nominations, it did page a way for comedy to be more considered of an Art instead of as an illicit Hollywood machine to garner audience appeal.I mean this film takes the Sofia Coppola/Charlie Kauffman image of light comedic portrayal and blows it on a full dial in order to detail this sincere motion picture into something of an opus.
All i can say is, that if you are a fan of the subtle-comic scene in which Maggie Gyllenhaal,Scarlet Johansson and Zooey Deschanel are fighting for the homecoming crown, and where Bill Murray happens to be the Geology Teacher (taking you underwater and to Tokyo)then vote for Zach Braff to be Homecoming King(Dustin Hoffman, you're free to go)- because he'll turn high school into something somewhat of, well, a Garden State. (i.e see this movie)