Okay, so I'm lying in bed and I just finished watching the movie 'Garden State' for, like, the nth and seventh time in my life. There are a few things I've found that I seem to rediscover every time I watch this movie and that's probably why I love it so much.
If you've ever seen the movie, you're gonna totally understand me from here on in.
Like, flat out- this movie is probably one of the most awkward pieces of film ever concieved. Awkward in the sense that it deals with certain aspects of life that movies usually just gloss over, awkward in that it just feels and makes you uncomfortable when you watch it. The speech and dialogue is stunted and short, the lighting is really kind of dim and the scenes are choppy but still complete. It's literally like watching someones life, not in the glossy Hollywood sense, but in the real, I wanna turn my head because it's so fucking embarrassing that even I feel embarrasses kind of way.
I remember watching thus movie when it first came out: I was at that point in my life that Large describes, the point where the house you live in no longer feels like home and about the dynamics of family. It's the scene about halfway through the movie where Sam and Large are just chilling alone at the shallow end of Jesse's pool and they're just talking while everyone else is dicking off in the deep end. Anyway, I remember watching that and hearing what he was saying and, to this day, that is the only scene of any movie that I have ever seen in my lifetime that has actually made me cry.
I love that it's such a contrast to all the perfect lines and perfect timing of other movies and shows. Even the ones that try to portray real lives end up being perfectly imperfect, kind of fulfilling the cliché by trying not to fulfill it at all. Go watch it, you'll understand what I mean.
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hands down, one of the best movies ever.
ReplyDeletecé made me watch it last year with him, because i`d never watched it before in my life.
despite the fact that it was a movie he & his ex-girlfriend liked a lot (uh oh, here comes that familiar insecurity! kidding), i love it.
i watched it four times in one day, once.
i think you`re right - it`s so unscripted in its script that it sounds like real life. it`s like 'uhm...wow, this is too real to be watching' & at the same time, while the situations aren`t that REAL (balls on the forehead haha), it`s the reactions & the dialogue & the characters that are.
fav scenes: the police scene (lmfao first scene that i memorized haha); the waiting room scene (second scene i memorized) & the scene where they`re in her bedroom talking about doing something random that nobody else has ever done. yeah. i liked that.