#michael gondry

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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004) dir. Michel Gondry

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eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)

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My three favourite depictions of heartbreak in media

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the science of sleep (2006), dir. michael gondry

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Film of the week

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004)

This film is one of my favourites of all time. My first introduction to it was in 2022 when I met one of my closest and bestest friends, we met online and we decided to a film exchange, mine was Her (2013) and her's was Eternal Sunshine (2004). Every time I watch this movie, I always leave it with that feeling in my stomach, like a pit. That r I can feel how sad my face looks when when Joel is trying to resist the procedure after realising that even though it was a painful relationship, so much good came from it. It made him who he was and how they grew together as people. Michael Gondry is a genius and I'm sorry Jim Carrey because you didn't like filming it, but it is one of my all-time favourites. I can watch it over and over again and feel everything I did the first time i watched it. Incredible watch 10/10 everytime.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind // dir. Michael Gondry // wr. Michael Kaufman // 2004

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." Alexander Pope // "Eloisa to Abelard"

" It's one thing to wash that man right outta your hair, and another to erase him from your mind. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" imagines a scientific procedure that can obliterate whole fields of memory -- so that, for example, Clementine can forget that she ever met Joel, let alone fell in love with him. "Is there any danger of brain damage?" the inventor of the process is asked. "Well," he allows, in his most kindly voice, "technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage."

The movie is a labyrinth created by the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, whose "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation" were neorealism compared to this. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play Joel and Clementine, in a movie that sometimes feels like an endless series of aborted Meet Cutes. That they lose their minds while all about them are keeping theirs is a tribute to their skill; they center their characters so that we can actually care about them even when they're constantly losing track of their own lives. ("My journal," Joel observes oddly, "is ... just blank.")

The movie is a radical example of Maze Cinema, that style in which the story coils back upon itself, redefining everything and then throwing it up in the air and redefining it again. To reconstruct it in chronological order would be cheating.

If you think this makes the movie sound penetrable, you have no idea. As the movie opens, Joel is seized with an inexplicable compulsion to ditch work and take the train to Montauk, and on the train he meets Clementine. For all they know they have never seen each other before, but somehow there's a connection, a distant shadow of deja vu. During the course of the film, which moves freely, dizzyingly, forward and backward in time, they will each experience fragmentary versions of relationships they had, might have had, or might be having.

Kaufman's mission seems to be the penetration of the human mind. The insight of "Eternal Sunshine" is that, at the end of the day, our memories are all we really have, and when they're gone, we're gone. " Roger Ebert // 2004

Cast:

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, and Elijah Wood

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accep

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKoM6zVSpUQ

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Cinematography by: Ellen Kuras

Cast: Jim Carrey (Joel Barish), Kate Winslet (Clementine Kruczynski), Kirsten Dust (Mary Svevo), Mark Ruffalo (Stan Fink), Elijah Wood (Patrick Wertz), David Cross (Rob Eakin), Jane Adams (Carrie Eakin), Tom Wilkinson (Dr. Howard Mierzwiak)

Screenplay by: Charlie Kaufman

Directed by: Michel Gondry