Braff

Because I can.


And why not.

And also a bit because it's a Gen Xer going through a personal Crisis, at just this time when Crisis surrounds us already. It seems fair to say that this is his Pragmatic Mid-life Xer film, much as Garden State was his Alienated Young Adult film.

Finishing off with a line like "Maybe we're just the regular people, the ones who get saved," certainly sounds like it.