If You Mock Garden State, You Will Hurt Zach Braff's Fragile Heart
LatestGarden State, the movie you binged on when you weren’t listening to The Shins’ “New Slang” on repeat, was released 11 years ago. And on September 14, Vice published a commemorative article reliant on one basic premise: we all loved Garden State for exactly one year. Then we realized it was self-indulgent, overwrought shit. Unfortunately, Zach Braff, writer, director, and star of the film, read said article. And guys, it really hurt his feelings.
It hurt his feelings so much, in fact, that he decided to tell Vice, publicly, of his distress.
To be fair, it’s not a flattering article. Author Dan Ozzi describes Zach’s character, Andrew, as the whiny bitch to whom we could all relate in our early twenties: