
Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind, by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry, is one of those films that you have to watch several times before you really understand it, unless you're a genius and therefore know everything. Anyways, this film is about a man named Joel Barrish(Jim Carrey) who meets this unusual being that he finds to like very much. They start to hang out a lot until Joel gets a letter saying that Clementine Kruczynski(Kate Winslet) has erased her memory of Joel. He does the same and they find eachother again. They meet eachother again and go through the same process. The film can get confusing between real life, memories and flashbacks to their previous relationship.
At the end of the film we are kind of left hanging showing Joel and Clemetine playing in the snow but it doesn't tell us if it was from the past, in the present or from the future. I think the director left it up to the viewer to decide. To me, I think it is from another one of their relationships where they keep meeting eachother and then erasing their memory. I think their relationship is one that will never end in the long run so they keep erasing and keep erasing. I think it is a never ending cycle for Joel and Clem. The same thing will happen everytime. Overall I liked the movie. It's classified as a romantic comedy and I liked it better than others because it doesn't have all that gooey and mushy romantic things. Some of it is in there just not overused.
"And that's all I have to say about that" -Forest Gump
2 comments:
Alex I think your ideas are great. I love your idea of the last scene being one of their previous relationships and they just keep on erasing eachother. I think you could definatly be right about that one.
I think that you are probally right about the last scene because it is played like 3 times and that shows that they relived that memory many times.
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