Dear Zach Braff,
(director of Garden State
actor in Garden State)
your directing: serious when moments are serious, laughing at the ridiculous and at the grave, crying but not melodramatic, destructing the composure of the main character slowly, unpretentiously, almost in an underground manner.
The small details: the completely sterile white room at the beginning, the big parents house in contrast with the run-down motorbike, the shirt that was made out of the same fabric which Andrew's mother used to decorate the room...how inappropriate, how desperately funny
When I realized that you also directed this movie (not only starred in it), I got interested in the "you behind the cameras", you who were sitting, writing, and directing, the spiritus movens of the movie, and I was thinking: this person knows some things about life.
I thought the movie honest - and I don't mean its apparent autobiographical background - but the sense of disclosure of self that I noticed in the details of the movie's construction ( both screenplay and camera work). And I think this is very difficult: not only to formulate and structure the pathetic and the serious in an artform, but also to exhibit yourself, to reveal so much. Even if I thought that the movie was blatantly honest, it was not done in a melodramatic way but in a very intelligent, partly covered up way.
So many people are covered up and cloaked up and they don't even know it, some people are covered up and cloaked up and they know it, but do nothing about it, and then there are some people who have the courage to walk around naked, if only for a little while, and then they are free; but the descision to expose oneself brings them both chill and freedom. The paradox of exposure.
If you were only some guy from the neighborhood that I can have coffee with every once in a while, that would be cool. The bad luck of you being famous and stuff makes me think how idiotic all of this sounds. but oh well, sometimes it seems better to be a bit stupid, I've been trying to be smart all my life and it ain't fun, I can tell you. it's all too serious and grave. so here's a little silliness from me.
Best to you and
do make another movie,
Marta.
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