The Last Kiss
“If you absolutely have to become an adult and all that comes with it, this is the kind of woman you want to do it with…. right?”
It was that uncertain edge in the voice when mouthing the words “right”, along with the way the screen suddenly went blank, that really made my hair rise and gave me a million little goosebumps.
Im a big Zach Braff fan. I somehow relate to J.D, and Garden State really got me thinking about my own trip back home last year. And now, when I’m in the midst of one of the toughest periods of my life….big decisions about work, marraige, love and life, here comes a movie about infidelity, taking risks and becoming adults from the Braff-man!
Since I saw this trailer on Saturday, I’ve watched it atleast twice a day and listened to the song (Chocolate by Snow Patrol) about 20 times. Call me obsessive, but when you feel like you can relate precisely with what the protagonist of a movie is going through, and said movie feature your favorite actor, and said actor already produce one brilliant movie that seemed plucked right from your mind, then that movie is bound to become one of the most anticipated movie release ever, in keviv-world atleast.
I wish I could write more about all this, but I need time. Time to process the craziness and weariness of the past few weeks, since that horrifyingly inevitable announcement came. Time to figure out where my life is headed, and where I want it to head. Time to figure out what I want, period. And time to get over my constant laziness and start writing more regularly (pretending that everyone reads what I write, like a ‘dear’ friend was kind enough to point out to me today).
So in the meanwhile, here’s the comment I posted on Braff’s new site (being comment no. 179 won’t give it much air-time anyways):
“So in early 2005, I was feeling weird about going back home to India for a lengthy stay, coming to terms with trying to fit back into a place I never thought I’d ever have to spend time in again…and I just happened to stumble onto Garden State. While the movie didn’t quite reflect my situation (i.e noone died, and I didn’t get to do E), the songs (especially Let Go) somehow helped make the trip make sense…and I actually ended up asking my old best friend to marry me.
Fast forward to more than an year later, and I’m about to go back home in a month to officially get ‘engaged’ and I’m struggling to deal with all this weight of settling down and being responsible for someone else’s life, let alone my own…I’m just not ready for it all yet. So I go in to waste a Saturday afternoon on some mindless Adam Sandler drivel….and WHOA, there’s a trailer for Zach’s new movie about become adults and making hard choices and wondering whether the girl we see as THE ONE is really just…someone.
Ofcourse, I would hate to think that I am just one of the mindless drones of today’s pop-culture steeped iPod generation who lives are shaped by the music/ media/ marketing around them…BUT, ofcourse I can’t wait for the movie, I spent an hour finding the trailer-song and the play-count is up to 64 already.
I think that is what make’s Zach so appealing…the person he is and the characters he chooses to play (apart from that weird feather fiend ofcourse) seem so easy to relate to. In these days of mindless escapist fare, his movies make us look within ourselves to find our own Large and Sam, while providing a bitter-sweet backdrop to our lives with his brilliant musical choices.
By the time I see the movie, I would’ve decided what to do with my life. Zach…here’s hoping I’ll get to enjoy the movie with a deeper perspective, or maybe get that perspective from it. Keep being the person you are…!”