(what would zach braff do?)
With your mind reeling over all of the different concerns suddenly on your plate, you wander the streets for a while trying to sort stuff out. Eventually, you come upon a movie theater and buy a ticket for the next movie playing, a Zach Braff film called She’s Trying To Lock Me Up Inside A Little Tiny Box.
In the darkened theater, you begin to sort through all that’s at stake. Julia could very well die if you don’t go through with the rescue, no question. But for all you know the kidnapper is planning on murdering you both, in which case the only hope would be to involve the police and leave it to them. But wouldn’t that be just another in a long line of cop-outs on your part? With every dilemma in your life, you’ve always taken the shortest path to doing as little as possible. Maybe it’s time you finally did what you know is right, no matter how difficult.
All these divergent thoughts begin to collapse in together and you find yourself getting lost in the movie. Zach Braff’s character is about to marry his longtime girlfriend, but he has trouble with commitment so he gets this other girl pregnant who demands that he be a father to her child, but that scares him so he goes on a road trip with his buddies and falls for a girl he meets at a highway toll booth. She is adorably and irreparably schizophrenic and she just got fired from her job at the toll booth so she needs a ride back to the hospital. On the way, she gives him some dandelions and teaches him what’s really important (the rain, and good hot chocolate). Meanwhile, his rich father-in-law to be wants him to be a man and take the LSATs, and throughout all of this Zach Braff keeps repeating his catch phrase, “I just wanna watch TV and play my drums!”
“Comb your hair!” you shout at Zach Braff on the screen. You think you’re pretty funny but someone behind you tells you to shush.
Shhhh… It sweeps through your head like a gust of wind, clearing away all of the clutter and revealing what it is you have to do. You get up from your seat and walk out of the movie during a montage of Zach Braff and his friends doing cannonaballs at a pool where they’re trespassing.
DO YOU WANT TO HARNESS YOUR NEWFOUND RESOLVE TO DO THE UNSELFISH AND HEROIC THING AND GO HOME TO AWAIT THE KIDNAPPER'S INSTRUCTIONS?
DO YOU WANT TO JUST SPEND ALL THE RANSOM MONEY ON LOTTO TICKETS?
GO BACK ONE
DO YOU WANT TO JUST SPEND ALL THE RANSOM MONEY ON LOTTO TICKETS?
GO BACK ONE
2 Comments:
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- Cherie Wilkinson said...
May 26, 2008 at 5:32 PMNOooo- Liezel said...
November 21, 2013 at 4:09 AMI cant choose one... i can only choose to go back. WHY??!! Really interested now!
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