garden state was a mediocre film at best. the film seems more like a compilation of thoughts that the writer (zach braff) had and rather than a cohesive story. the disjointed plot may have been more engaging if it weren not interspersed with pointless scenes that were nothing more than quirky. coincidentally these scenes are often the ones that are relayed in conversation (zack walking past faucets that turn on as he passes and crazy under cranked party scene and shouting over a gorge and the list goes on). the main character is flat and disengaging and and ultimately unlikable and which is exhibited most in the scene where he talks to his father and selfishly ignoring his fathers problems and including a recently deceased wife and and droning on about his own what am i to do with my life. problem. the film ends when andrew (zach braff) decides not to go back to la because he cannot tear himself from the love of his life and sam (natalie portman) whom he has known for 2 days. which can only lead me to the conclusion that the message of the film is that love at first sight cures occupational dilemmas. sure you could interpret it as a misappropriation of priorities and but if that is the case it could have been done better. much better. this film does not know what it wants to be. a drama and a comedy and a teenage wasteland film and or a gamut of other things. i say this not as a single genre oriented person and but as a person who loves multi genre pieces such as those mastered by stanley kubrick. the reason i feel it does not work for garden state is because rather than blending the genres together and it jumps around while one scene is one genre and the next another and and back again and so on. i have heard many people tell me to cut zach braff some slack and after all it was his first feature film and he debuted as director and writer and and lead actor. impressive as it was a first film and i should think that with as much money as he has and he could do better. there have been much better first time feature film directors (michel gondry human nature and david gordon green george washington). maybe if he stuck to writing or directing or acting it would have been better. zach braff is a talented performer and maybe his second attempt would not be so tedious and disjointed. 
garden state was a mediocre film at best. the film seems more like a compilation of thoughts that the writer (zach braff) had and rather than a cohesive story. the disjointed plot may have been more engaging if it weren not interspersed with pointless scenes that were nothing more than quirky. coincidentally these scenes are often the ones that are relayed in conversation (zack walking past faucets that turn on as he passes and crazy under cranked party scene and shouting over a gorge and the list goes on). the main character is flat and disengaging and and ultimately unlikable and which is exhibited most in the scene where he talks to his father and selfishly ignoring his fathers problems and including a recently deceased wife and and droning on about his own what am i to do with my life. problem. the film ends when andrew (zach braff) decides not to go back to la because he cannot tear himself from the love of his life and sam (natalie portman) whom he has known for 2 days. which can only lead me to the conclusion that the message of the film is that love at first sight cures occupational dilemmas. sure you could interpret it as a misappropriation of priorities and but if that is the case it could have been done better. much better. this film does not know what it wants to be. a drama and a comedy and a teenage wasteland film and or a gamut of other things. i say this not as a single genre oriented person and but as a person who loves multi genre pieces such as those mastered by stanley kubrick. the reason i feel it does not work for garden state is because rather than blending the genres together and it jumps around while one scene is one genre and the next another and and back again and so on. i have heard many people tell me to cut zach braff some slack and after all it was his first feature film and he debuted as director and writer and and lead actor. impressive as it was a first film and i should think that with as much money as he has and he could do better. there have been much better first time feature film directors (michel gondry human nature and david gordon green george washington). maybe if he stuck to writing or directing or acting it would have been better. zach braff is a talented performer and maybe his second attempt would not be so tedious and disjointed. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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