Unresolved opening acts.

The cinetrix introduced me to the work of film essayist Jonathan Kiefer. Check out this opening from his Garden State piece:

The good news about Garden State is that if someone has told you it’s great and you’ll like it, it is and you will. That’s assuming you’re part of a certain demographic: adrift (to your bemused chagrin) and without enough to show for your twenties, infuriated by failing to use this fact as material for something artful, and unfulfilled by all the vocations you’ve had the freedom to try—collectively, the unresolved opening act of your adulthood. If you believed the premonition that your sensitivity—your oddity, really—would eventually become useful, and now wonder whether that was just a callow delusion, well, you have a trustworthy friend in Garden State, and in anyone who recommends it.

Good, right? In fact it goes down so smoothly, I almost bought it. For fear of starting something that will spiral wildly out of control, I am leaving my Garden State musings at that and encouraging you to check out Mr. Kiefer's work.