# Jersey Girl: Why Now?

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/jersey-girl-why-now/
- Published: 2015-11-17T22:13:29-06:00
- Author: Matthew Solomon

I’ve been of fan of all of Kevin Smith’s movies since Cripple Jay introduced me to Clerks roughly 20 yrs ago. What draws any fan to any artist’s work is the ability to connect with it. With Clerks I was able to connect easily with the plight of someone working in the customer service industry. Having spent some of my formative years working at Blockbuster Video I spent many hours wondering what I was even doing there on any particular day. I was able to connect with the roof hockey scene having grown up playing roller hockey as many 90’s kids did. I even remember saying I was too sick one day to ref a youth basketball game so I could go lace up and cover the point. With age I was able to connect with even deeper issues covered by Clerks which I’m sure even Smith would laugh at since most only see the film on the surface as nothing but dick and fart jokes. So when he put out Jersey Girl the audience may have questioned what exactly they were watching.