To me, it's just like characters going to the restroom and eating proper meals: you don't always seem them do it, but you assume they do.

Normally I would agree. But in this movie, because it was concerned with the precise passage of time (you can map out exactly what happens every day, Sunday through Saturday), and because her discusssion of her job is pretty grounded in the real world, it bothered me. I think you're right that it's something we aren't *supposed* to think about, though.

What's the line from BRINGING UP BABY (said with Grant wearing a nightgown)?

Isn't that the first mainstream use of gay to mean homosexual? I've always wondered how they got it past the censors...

You know, I'd never even considered the second question, regarding Garden State. I think, to me, the entire period of time had the feeling of one of those long weekends home from college, when you run into everyone that you've ever met and haven't seen in ages, and become de facto friends with for the brief period. But that's not true here. So, I don't know.

On the first point, I don't think that his friend intended the journey to be what it ended up being for Zach Braff's character. My gut reaction is that he wasn't that deep. I think that's half of what I loved about the movie- how random journeys can lead you to moments of clarity.

Also happy-making: my theater was giving away Garden State posters. Now I have something to put on my wall.

Also happy-making: my theater was giving away Garden State posters.

The one-sheet with them screaming on top of the tractor thing? I have it too!

Yep! I left it in my friend's car, though. She'd better not throw it out!

Shakes tiny fist.

Isn't that the first mainstream use of gay to mean homosexual? I've always wondered how they got it past the censors...

I'd guess that the clean meaning is the more obvious.

Lately, we've run across a few lines on old Dick Van Dyke reruns that have surprised us.

I'd guess that the clean meaning is the more obvious.

As in, "I'm wearing the lingerie because I got really happy all of a sudden"? To my ears, that doesn't parse, but you may be right that it is how the line was heard in 1936. (1934? I forget.)

Lilty, I agree that the friend didn't seem that deep, but I don't understand how the jewelry dealer got the necklace unless he had given it to him in advance. Or one/both of them might routinely rob graves, but I don't want to think that.

Lyra Jane- That threw me too- when he said "I wish I could say I'd planned it all along," what I ended up coming to was that he'd taken it off of the mother before he buried her and sold it to the jewelry dealer, then arranged to get it back as an afterthought. But I'm not sure.

Waits eagerly for dvd commentaries.

As in, "I'm wearing the lingerie because I got really happy all of a sudden"?

I think of the older meaning of "gay" to have a carefree, slightly silly sense. More likely to put a lampshade on its head.

This I ended up coming to was that he'd taken it off of the mother before he buried her and sold it to the jewelry dealer, then arranged to get it back as an afterthought. But I'm not sure.

makes the most sense to me. We know Mark was stealing jewelry from the people he was burying. I knew something was up in that regard as soon as I saw him out of his overalls at the party with all the dangly gold jewelry. Something about that struck me as fishy. And then there was that long moment between Mark and Large at the graveyard when they're hanging out with their millionaire friend. That was one of my favorite parts of the movie.

I think the implication was that he either sold it to the guy in the boat or had sold it somewhere else and gotten the guy in the boat, via his porno purveyor hotel friend, to get the necklace back.

Oh, okay, I didn't notice the jewelry at the party. Thanks for breaking it down for me, lisah.