Year: 2004
You can't help but love this movie. It's a love story, yet it's not one of those sunshine-and-roses love stories where people live happily ever after, or the romeo & juliet style tragic tale of star crossed loves who have all the love in their hearts but are forced to be apart by the cruel world. This is a story that anyone can relate to, a tale of ordinary, imperfect people, looking for a little love, finding it & then messing it all up due to their own complicated minds. When it hurts, they rush into the only thing that they think will make their pain go away... having their memories of each other erased, but at the point of no return they realize that they don't want to let go of these memories. When things get bad, when you just stop trying to see the good in the other person then all that you see is the bad. You can hate a person, yet only when you stand to lose them, even the memory of them, that's when you realize that you can't stand to be without them, that you'd rather live with all the hurt & the things that you find unacceptable in them than live without them. That is what this movie conveys so naturally & beautifully.
The best part is that, the same plot could have been made melodramatic, overbearing on emotions, but it doesn't. It's not a fairy tale. It's about people who could almost be real. And anyone can relate to it, anyone who has ever been in a relationship with someone for some time. Jim Carrey has always been a fabulous performer, & he's at his usual best in this movie. Kate Winslett appears in a completely deglamourised role as the quirky, weird, fiercely independent yet sensitive, Clementine. They both carry their parts without making anything look unnatural or abnormal, that is what makes their characters even more believable.
If you are the sensitive sort, you may even get dewy eyed, especially toward the end, where the last few memories that Joel has of Clementine are being erased & they know that they can't hold on even if they wish to, it's rather touching. The Beck song at the end, "everybody's gotta learn sometime" kind of sums the entire thing up.
Overall, one of my favourite movies, & one of the few i'll watch over & over & over again, but never ever get tired of it.
6 comments:
hey what gives!
no commenting on the other blog? :p
:D
I'll enable comments on posts that people might want to comment on, otherwise its time you guys read my other blogs as well. ;D
I loved the movie too- I am a big fan of Michael Gondry... Have you seen Being John Malkovich? If you havnt watch it -- its kind of a predessor to eternal sunshine and is written by the same writer-Charlie Kaufman
BTW @ your reply above..:D
yeah i loved Being John Malkovich too... :)
Michael Gondry has this way of taking the most glamorous & beautiful actresses & casting them in the most unglam roles of the careers, yet make them so believable.
Call me crazy, but of all the Kaufman works I have seen, this one falters the most in its screenplay with both Adaptation(*whistles*) and Being John Malkovich being screenwritten better. He did botch up considerably in Confessions,though.
this is the biggest mindgame screenplay i have ever come across,more confusing epics like this if you happen to know kindly provide me the names of...(kindly ignore my faltering grammer,its quite late...lol)
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