Garden State Analysis
The film “Garden State” is an eccentric drama, romance comedy with a slew of complex, innate cast of characters, each deeply entrenched in profound emotional and psychological scars, ascending from the regrets of their past. It is a musing, on finding oneself after years of aimless confusion. Writer/Director Zach Braff, stars as the films main character, Andrew Largeman. In James Berardinelli’s movie review, he said: “Garden State is one of those movies that fails to stay with the viewer for an extended period of time. It's a forgettable film featuring a throw-away story with unmemorable characters and unremarkable performances.
I must disagree; although “Garden State” can be a bit slow, moody and too subtle for a lot of viewers, the storyline …show more content…
Attempting to discover who you are as a person now, and what you’re going to do with the rest of your life career-wise, is highly confusing and difficult, when you have absolutely no idea how to achieve such a prerequisite. That very concept is at the core of “Garden State”. Also with the diverse, eclectic cast of characters in this film, many viewers, like myself, will quickly identify themselves to the trials and tribulations in the film, or they will reflect back with a knowing nod, or with a great deal of understanding to each and every one of the characters personality idiosyncrasies, and the deep embedded …show more content…
Even though it seems to be aimed at a specific age-related target audience, there are many characters throughout the whole film that viewers can relate to. And that in return keeps you very intrigued, interested, and ultimately, entertained. As a viewer, the most prolific symbolism in the whole film was the metaphoric infinite abyss. As a viewer, the infinite abyss to me represents life in general, the meaning of life. Life can be a deep dark bottomless pit, you can either succumb to it, and it swallows you up, and takes you down, or you can choose, to stand at the top and scream down at it in defiance, and pave your own paths in life, and fill that abyss with meaning, purpose, friendships, family, happiness and love. When you change the way you view the world, you change everything that happens to you within it. Life is just a state of
I must disagree; although “Garden State” can be a bit slow, moody and too subtle for a lot of viewers, the storyline …show more content…
Attempting to discover who you are as a person now, and what you’re going to do with the rest of your life career-wise, is highly confusing and difficult, when you have absolutely no idea how to achieve such a prerequisite. That very concept is at the core of “Garden State”. Also with the diverse, eclectic cast of characters in this film, many viewers, like myself, will quickly identify themselves to the trials and tribulations in the film, or they will reflect back with a knowing nod, or with a great deal of understanding to each and every one of the characters personality idiosyncrasies, and the deep embedded …show more content…
Even though it seems to be aimed at a specific age-related target audience, there are many characters throughout the whole film that viewers can relate to. And that in return keeps you very intrigued, interested, and ultimately, entertained. As a viewer, the most prolific symbolism in the whole film was the metaphoric infinite abyss. As a viewer, the infinite abyss to me represents life in general, the meaning of life. Life can be a deep dark bottomless pit, you can either succumb to it, and it swallows you up, and takes you down, or you can choose, to stand at the top and scream down at it in defiance, and pave your own paths in life, and fill that abyss with meaning, purpose, friendships, family, happiness and love. When you change the way you view the world, you change everything that happens to you within it. Life is just a state of