These making-of sections usually add a lot to the movie but usually don't stand out. This one had a very specific quality, quite close to that of the movie. People seemed to have enjoyed working on this movie and they all seem to have an actual personality, but not in a pseudo-fake-glamor way. And it really doesn't seem to be a personality cult despite the fact that the movie seems to be largely Zach Braff's pet project. Braff himself comes out as a normal person who worked on a movie he cared about. This idea (mentionned by Natalie Portman) that it's nice to work with young people in both cast and crew is well-taken. The crew really seems typical of "Post-Busters" who do things their own way, regardless of whether or not it's completely different from what people have done in the past.
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Brilliant, poignant, funny, dark, witty, attentive, articulate,
hbattle9 September 2005
It was written by one writer that this film defined the modern, now group and while I agree I suggest that that position discredits this film. It is a film that can be embraced by each generation and hopefully from those not yet born. There is hope and love, apathy and generosity, ugliness and beauty, Yin and yan. One may say that the 'oneness' of the picture captured in a perfect way, the oneness of Buddhism and Karma (Kamma). In Buddism, material universes do not exist as they did not exist in the film until someone came in and broke their frame. In Karma, Karma being action, there must be an action which produces a consequence and this in turn and by definition is Karma and this picture presented this well and often. My generation is from the 40's and my appreciation is of 2005. Namaste! Harry B Battle
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