Garden State Posted on 18 October 2014 at 03:24 Zach Braff has made it. Both script, directing and main acting, and everything is more than all right.Natalie Portman's role here is a bit quirky and it's so fresh to the eyes to have seen her role transition from playing Queen Padme in the Star Wars prequels to this hearty romantic film This is a film without violence about people living ordinary extra-ordinary lives and it's much more interesting than extra-ordinary murders, which very, very few, even in the USA, encounter. The "hero" has been going on tranquilizers for all his grown up-life and even before that. He's got no feelings left, not even for the death of his mother. Then he meets a girl, well acted indeed by Natalie Portman, who unlocks him slowly, saying the right things all the time without knowing it. Hours after you've seen this, you realize that here was a crucial moment, this was a turning point and so on. The love story gets a little sentimental at the end, but still this is a film that lives long after you've seen it through.
