Filmlist: Garden State 

In Hollywood movies, people used to go out on adventures. To the big city. Since the 90's, but since the heyday of indie cinema, you return to the small town where you were born. In former times one sought victory, today one escapes defeat. But your hometown is the centre of your depression. Here you will meet all the crazy people of the past again - and your parents. That's risky! And these films dramatize the decay of every optimism. You can't make it in your small town and you can't make it anywhere. Sounds pathetic? But no! Garden State, Lonesome Jim, Elizabethtown or Beautiful Girls are beautiful movies, which are also constantly rented by you in our video library. Especially Garden State! The focus is always on sad guys. I wouldn't call them men, rather big boys. Not grown up. But always helpful women appear in these movies. Liv Tyler in Lonesome Jim and Jersey Girl or Nathalie Portman in Garden State. They approach the heroes cautiously. After all, the point is to make the need stronger than fear. Often the sad guys are afraid of women. The question is: Can they accept the love of Liv Tyler or Nathalie Portman? Can they even be happy? Although the small towns to which they return are often staged like filthy holes? (Think of Indiana in Lonesome Jim - awful! Or Knights Ridge, Massachusetts in Beautiful Girls - always snowy!) Well, I think it's up to them. These small towns don't look any different than the Berlin suburb where I grew up. Of course you can be happy there! I know people who are.