Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)0

Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind is a bril­liant film, sim­ply because it’s a reflec­tion of the things in life that no one would want to pick out and talk about.Sure, the con­cept of eras­ing a cer­tain part of your mem­ory in an eras­ing clinic can be rather unbe­liev­able. But really, isn’t it some­thing we even­tu­ally learn to want? The film begins with Joel, played by Jim Carrey, your sweet and sen­si­tive, low pro­file kind of guy. He wakes up in the morn­ing, as though from the weird­est dream ever, and decides to take a train to Montauk sim­ply because he felt like it. He sees Clementine (Kate Winslet) on the cold rainy beach in Montauk and again at a diner. She smiles at him and Joel quickly looks back down at his jour­nal, ask­ing him­self, “Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?“This film show­cases the mis­er­able parts of our love lives. But it points out the won­der­ful parts too. Joel is the side of us when we’re madly in love with who we think is the love of our lives. Clementine is our tem­pera­men­tal, rest­less, reck­less side when we’re just so fed up with things. This, if i may point out, is a per­fectly log­i­cal expla­na­tion to the ever-changing color of her hair.Where do we want to find love? Anywhere. At a party, in our work­place and even on a cold, rainy beach. But once we think we’ve found it, things hap­pen. Arguments that start over the sil­li­est things. We get tired of the same old antics of our sig­nif­i­cant one. Can we really expect to have eter­nal sun­shine? Then, we want to pain to stop, to be erased, so that it seems only the good mem­o­ries last for­ever. Ergo, the title, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. Joel signs up to what he thinks is the elim­i­na­tion of his painful mem­o­ries of Clementine, but then he real­izes that it was even more painful for him to watch them get taken away from him. He finds that just under all that pain, were the hap­pi­est moments of his life.Another plus to this film is the beau­ti­ful sound­track. It com­pli­ments the mood of the film. The com­i­cal and the gloomy parts. In the song that Joel was lis­ten­ing to while he was cry­ing in his car, I man­aged to catch a line of the song, which went, “Everybody’s got to run some­time.” And I thought that, whether inten­tional or not, was very coher­ent to the film because Joel was lit­er­ally run­ning away while try­ing to grab hold (fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing) onto what­ever was left of his mem­o­ries of Clementine. And that they had to run as far as they could so they wouldn’t be found and erased.I loved the part of the film where Joel and Clementine, in their mem­ory, broke into the house by the beach again and the house slowly started to fall apart and Joel was telling Clementine about how he wished he had stayed. And fol­low­ing the path of his mem­ory, Joel walked right out of the house just like he did when they were there the first time but then he went back in to make a proper good­bye. Thus, Joel’s sud­den and unex­plained trip to Montauk in the start of the film is clar­i­fied when Clementine whis­pers “Meet me in Montauk” just before the last moment was erased. If you haven’t caught Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind, please do. I will end my review with a very mem­o­rable part of the film to me when Joel was down to his last mem­ory to be erased.Clementine: “This is it Joel, it’s gonna be gone soon.“Joel: “I know.“Clementine: “What do we do?“Joel: “Enjoy it.”