I truly don't know where to begin when talking about this movie. I think the most appropriate thing to start off with is that cinema is art. Art is meant to make us feel something, an emotion, whether that feeling is positive or negative. It's meant to hit us in personal places in order to get its point across. It can be interpreted by different individuals in different ways. Everyone isn't going to have the same perspective regarding the same piece of art. Considering all of this, I think it's safe to say that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an artistic masterpiece. It explores heartbreaking themes such as love, fate, relationship, passion, and guilt.
In one of the earlier scenes, we see two people sitting in the lobby/ waiting room of the office, one has a box of trophies, the other of dog toys- we immediately know that a father is trying to forget his child, and a lady is trying to forget a pet that has passed away. Whenever I think about this movie, that scene specifically always comes to mind. I think that's because we can truly see how grief or anger can manipulate the mind and decision making. You can be in so much pain and just want to forget it all, but in the end, these hardships make us who we are and define us as people. Getting rid of these memories only hurts us more, and we can see Joel realize that when it's too late. This movie really drives the point home that it's better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all. It’s beautiful too, to know that they found their ways back to each other in the end. I think it goes to show that true love always prevails in the end and everything happens for a reason. The characters are so complex, yet so easy to comprehend. I relate to both of them in different ways. I hated Clementine so much for how awful she was to Joel at moments, but then at different times like the library scene, I related to every word she said. That is a difficult thing to be able to create, and somehow the writers and directors managed to do it so well.
At the start, I thought that I wouldn’t mind forgetting a few people, as I’m sure everyone else felt, but by the end I was in complete tears just thinking about the possibility of not being able to remember someone. I was crying before the title of the movie even came on the screen, I had to stop halfway through because I was crying too hard. Something about this movie just gets you in your most vulnerable places. I cannot recommend this one enough. It’s one of those films that you have to watch multiple times to fully grasp because there's just so much detail. Gorgeous, beautiful, amazing.
(Ignore how badly composed this was, I’m only 14)
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Only 3 stars because of how product arrivedat my house. Thank goodness the DVD itself was not ruined.
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