Showing posts with label Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

     Here is one that I have long avoided...I don't know, it might have been the long title, the enthusiasm of people I knew to be romantic or something like that. Well...indeed, it has a sweetly romantic beginning, it shows good romantic the-whole-world-is-a-mess when a tragedy has befollen me, it ends with a romantic touch. But it has a jumpy narrative line (the movie might be worth watching only for this) with almost as nice side story.      Let me tell you what happens:(Spoiler Spoiler) two people meet (in this case Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet - both doing a good job). And fall in love, have a relationship which feels like 'not the right thing for me at this moment'. And, what do you know, they can go through a funny little medical procedure to 'move over' erasing completely the other from memory. And they do it. [But], it just happens that they meet again and, what do you know, fall in love again and do the whole thing over and over for a while. Finaly they learn at some point that they did that and,w d y k, this time decide to try and go through it again. It is not a big fancy well thought decision but it makes me think that, why not, it may just be that normality and healthy realtion is exactly this one: meet, love, erase and do it again. We're doing this already so...why not. It may not seem like all the happiness in the world but think of it this way: even if we are erasing everything we would still like to go through it again. Could it be? What in the world am I saying? Naturly it could not. Needless to say that the movie has a lot of success among people with a special someone whom they would never erase.