best of 2004-so far

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2004)

Garden State is a film with beautiful cinematography, witty societal jabs, and lovable characters.
Braff has been knocked for his film because it is "flawed" in some technical or story-structure way, but the truth is: the film works and it's very deep.
We have the flowery love story, but at the core of the film is feeling. Braff goes back to his HS friends and they're all drowning away their pains with drugs, and then his story of doing legal drugs to numb his personal pain, anyway, the film is about how pain and love are natural and must be felt.
Feeling is the meaning of life.