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Garden State is this week’s topic. I went on vacation with my family over the break and on the way to and from Florida we had 24 hours in the car so we brought movies to watch. Garden State was highly recommended for us and my brother watched it and loved it but I was gone the night they watched it so they brought it on the trip for me to watch. Well, I did and I will never regret it. This movie was incredible.
Starring Natalie Portman and Zach Braff we are treated to a side of both of these actors that captures our hearts. Zach Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a run-down actor who can’t seem to find happiness. He’s on medication that was prescribed to him over 16 years ago and he can’t remember what life was like before he started taking the pills. Now, home for his mother’s funeral, feeling responsible for her death, and even being off of his off the medication he least expects to find the friend he meets. Sam (Natalie Portman) is a quirky girl who has some problems of her own.
Garden State is all about letting go and forgiving your past. Andrew and Sam’s friendship changes both of their lives.
Sam: “You're in it right now, aren't you?”
Andrew Largeman: “What?”
Sam: “My mom always says that, when she can see I'm like working something out in my head, she's like, ‘you're in it right now' and I'm looking at you're telling this story, and you're definitely in it.”
If I ever thought that a friendship like this was unattainable I realized that I was looking in all the wrong places. Sam and Andrew’s relationship was electric. Portman and Braff have an on screen connection that goes beyond The Notebook and Titanic. It is a truthful story of pain, struggle, love, and conquering the past.
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