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...Braff the director. His eye for plaintive, sublime imagery is as impressive as his ear for awkward, funny situations, and smartly, the 27-year-old has used his big shot at Hollywood auteur-dom as an excuse not just to include great music (Iron and Wine, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkel), but to sew it tightly into the film. Indeed, his movie feels like a mix tape writ large, addressed to the thousands of kids like him who want to follow their heart, if they only knew where it was. Apparently, surprisingly, he left his in Trenton...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
...second half of the book - there will be five episodes across the two volumes - follows Simon, 40 years earlier, on a humiliatingly unsuccessful attempt at opening new sales territory. Clearly far too introverted and insecure for such a task, he gets turned away from shop after shop while his brother's patronizing, scowling face seems to follow him everywhere. Eventually he has a bit of a breakdown, wandering aimlessly through a fantastical miniature golf course until quietly sitting under a tree. Using remarkable understatement the Simon sequence gets at the drama that governs our actual lives: succeeding or failing...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...