It's a beautiful, intelligent film, you might be forgiven if you find it confusing but no-one is going to miss the impact of the message. So not only is this another film told backwards but it's also about the preciousness of memory in our lives, as well as a cautionary reminder of what we tend to lose in relationships, and that loss is enormous. As Joel erases the memories of Clementine from his brain, starting from the most recent turbulent times, gradually going back to the exhilaration of first romance, he finds himself wanting to hold on to those early memories. But where you got a sense of a precocious cleverness with Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, here you get not only that but a real sense of heart as well. The ensemble is very simplistic, restricted in every cue to either Brions own solo performances or a small ensemble that features a prominent soloist. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson) and his team – receptionist (Kirsten Dunst) and technicians (Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood).ĭirected by Michel Gondry who made the least successful of Kaufman's previous films Human Nature. For Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he offers very little that speaks toward the genres most general norms, outside, perhaps, of an occasional element of jazz here and there.
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He learns to his chagrin that he and Clementine had had a relationship but it had gone sour and she decided to have memories of him erased from her mind. When Joel meets her again, it's strangely three days before Valentine's Day, and she doesn't recognise him. On the beach is Clementine Kruzyniski (Kate Winslet) with blue hair and an unstoppable enthusiasm.
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It begins with Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) dragging himself out of bed to the train station where, instead of going to work, he decides to go in the opposite direction, to the beach at Montauk on Long Island. This film is the story of a romance told backwards. The name of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman on the credits of a film sends up signals – what next can you expect from the writer of Being John Malkovich, Human Nature and Adaptation? Well, a title like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just for starters.