Oct 22, 2004

Jersey's Saving Throw

Zach Braff has redeemed New Jersey for me.

Garden State is a moody, poignant homage to the inherent beauty of all of life's various landscapes, physical and emotional. Even New Jersey's.

Critics have been laying praise on the movie for months, and it continues to play in mainstream theaters, so I won't go into everything that made the movie amazing for me, but I will say that if you haven't seen it yet, you need to see it on the big screen. It's not for everyone, but if it resonates with you, it will impact you in a big way.

The soundtrack is also so perfectly paired with a movie's varying moods and the feelings it evokes. I would probably never listen to most of the songs on the album on my own, but as I listen to the soundtrack now on the way home, I can't help but be drawn back into the world of the movie.