Discuss “Garden State's quirky realism proves true”

Garden State, the directorial debut of NBC?s Scrubs star Zach Braff, opens with a vague and abrupt scene aboard a passenger jet about to crash. As the airliner descends haphazardly, as Diet Coke flies through the air and people silently scream, the film?s protagonist, Andrew Largeman (played by Braff, who also wrote the film) sits numbly in his seat and stares straight ahead. This is followed by a surreal few seconds in which Large (as he is known to his friends) sees his bedroom telephone mounted next to the oxygen mask and then wakes up in his sterile white bed in Los Angeles, where his father is leaving a message stating that his mother has died.

The plane crash, we realize, is not an actual occurrence but a metaphor for Large?s life....