Yesterday I stopped by an old friend’s house and watched About Schmidt. I didn’t know too much about the movie other than I had heard it wasn’t that funny and it was actually kind of depressing. Unphased by these comments, I decided to watch the movie anyway.
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Garden State is one of those movies where after it ends you think to yourself, “damn, I wish they made more movies like that.”
Largeman, played by Zach Braff, comes back to his home town for the funeral of his quadriplegic mother. Leaving the antidepressants his father prescribes him at home, he slowly comes out of the foggy numbness that is the last 10+ years of his life. Over the course of a few days Largeman begins to figure out who he is and what it’s like to feel life.
I really enjoyed the characters and dialog in this movie. After Largeman meets Sam, played by Natalie Portman, he really begins to open up and the dialog between the two of them is fantastic. Although Sam quiets down after the first half of the movie, I still really enjoyed Largeman’s “conversations” with Sam. I say “conversations” because many of them are just Largeman talking to Sam, almost like we are hearing his inner dialog. Through these conversations we really begin to understand the depth of these characters and why they are the way they are.
I have just finished watching Napoleon Dynamite and I felt compelled to write a little something about it. For those of you who have never heard of this movie, Napoleon Dynamite is the main character and a super geek. (more…)
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