While sick as shit and pretty much restricted to the couch, there’s little else to do but watch movies. And so we did.

• 11’09″01 (imdb | rotten tomatoes) was a collection of 11 short films, each 11 minutes & 9 seconds long, that somehow dealt with the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. Some related to it in only the most obscure of ways (like the Japanese soldier who thought he was a snake), and some concentrated on it in very uncomfortable ways (such as Alejandro Gonzalez Inniaritu’s playback of TV & radio chatter from that day over a black screen, interrupted only with frames showing people jumping from the towers). Many dealt with the global impact (or lack thereof) of the attacks. Very, very interesting, and more than a little depressing.
• Garden State (imdb | rotten tomatoes), on the other hand, was anything but. Funny, smart, reminiscent of Grosse Pointe Blank (one of my all-time favourites), and (though I usually hate this term) heartwarming. I can see why my friend Stanzi likes it so much.