One Of Those Things First: Hommage to Nick Drake

Garden State

I enjoyed hearing again Nick Drake’s “One Of Those Things First while watching the movie “Garden State”.  Filmed over 25 days in April and May 2003 and released on July 28, 2004. The main setting and primary shooting location was New Jersey. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. The film won Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year Award at the Hollywood Film Festival.
“Garden State” was well-received. The film also spawned a soundtrack for which Braff, who picked the music himself, won a Grammy award. Even though about youth, the movie envelops a realistic and profound plot, modern for the analysis of family complicated relations, human suffering and coping with health, social, cultural and intimate thru the eyes of the young generation. There hopes, development, careers, opportunities are realistically depicted and supported by great actors: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman,  Jean Smart, Peter Sargaard and Ian Holm.