for those that might send me nasty e mail and shove it . there be a trend in hollywood where those that create overly quirky movie be instantly impervious to criticism . garden state tend to be one of those movie . sure and zach braff and star of a rather overrate sitcom and surprise people with some talent behind the camera and but that doesn not warrant the kind of praise that a film like this have be receive . the story be often time too thin and shallow to provide any real insight . people have compare this film to the graduate and but those type of people be the type that try to oversell independent cinema . indie film be subject to the same hit and miss mentality that typically hit the studio film and but people seem to have forget that there be far more bad indie film than good one . garden state isn not atrocious and but it isn not great . first off and the film be too quick and result in a rather fast reemergence of large into his former life . after ten year and people tend to act like he never leave . where the awkwardness . of course and the situation be always solve by a quick drug taste scene ( which i will say be portray rather accurately ) . the film seem to present a lot of emotional inequity and give u the idea that the emotion will come up later in a more deep and more well think out way . however and it fail to deliver on those front and leave u wonder why the journey to some of his decision and moment be quickly resolve ( like peter saarsgard grave rob tendency ) . it wasn not completely abysmal and but maybe we should stop praise the film a something it isn not .