Rachel's recommendation's really cool...

One of my students - Rachel Thomas - recommended this one after bringing in the excellent soundtrack to school this summer. Zach Braff wrote, directed, starred, and he's proving that Scrubs isn't a flukish kind of thing. He's got talent pouring from him in this one.

Braff's character is transformed from a pretty emotionally dead post-college actor-wannabee to a person who's realized that life isn't the what happens later once you figure it all out but rather it's what's happening right now along the way. It's a feeling that lots of people have once they find themselves in the real world as an adult for the first time or two. It's the moments of surreality when you find yourself doing something totally adult and juxtaposing it with the most juvenile behavior that you keep doing because it's who you are.

I once spoke to my mother about the concept of mental image, the age that you are inside your head when you think about yourself. I know I haven't hit adulthood yet, 'cause in my head I'm still "kid" when I speak to myself, when I remind myself to step forward on a return of serve, it's as "c'mon, kid, weight in, watch the ball" because I just don't think of myself as an adult. It's not something that happens often, but this movie speaks beautifully to it.