Oh dear filme, worthy of a place upon my shelf!

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2005)

Garden State. What can I say? I LOVED it. It's definitely getting purchased. I saw one episode of Scrubs and I thought Zach Braff had a lot of talent and potential. (Don't ask me how I know these things, I just do. I should be in casting, I have an weird intuition about actor/tress talent.) This has been my favorite Natalie Portman performance since the Professional. To be honest, I don't like her as Amidala/Padme in the Star Wars movies. Incongruous is the word, I believe. The movie is just amazing; always startling, always endearing and funny. It's warm and tragic, fun and real all at once. My favorite line: Have fun exploring the infinite abyss. It's such a traditional Hero/Fool journey. The protagonist, through trials and tribulations arrives at the Guardian of the Infinite Abyss. He's given permission from the Guardian to explore and learns an important TRUTH which he takes back with him, to the 'real world' and he is transformed. What else can I say? It was amazing. See it. I give it 100 Gazillion Widgets!