If you're reading, you've stumbled across my new temp blog! A movie a day! As this is the first day, I've decided to use a movie that I love a great deal. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Genre: Romance, Science-Fiction, Drama
Director: Michael Gondry (The Green Hornet)
Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation)
Studio: Focus Features
Starring: Jim Carrey (The Truman Show), Kate Winslet (Titanic), Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man), Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
IMDB:8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Metacritic: 89
Accolades Received:
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing
Writer's Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay
Accolades Nominated:
Academy Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay
Ceasar Awards - Best Foreign Film
BAFTA's - Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film
Synopsis (IMDB): A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
My Take:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It just about perfects everything, every line is perfect to the situation and the story at hand, the jumpy editing style is fitting to the scenes, and the story's absolute surrealism manages to capture realism at the same time. Seemingly contradictory, you'd be surprised of how it manages to make you feel, regardless of who you are, afterwards.
The story starts very peculiarly, giving us little background of the story as a whole. It's easy to be confused by the movie, but by center of the film involving the film's core topic is wholly gripping as you piece together the entire situation entirely. It develops an unorthodox way of unfolding the story, by traveling through the story in an extremely non linear method. It doesn't merely tell a story and be done with it, it tightly increases the emotional gravity of the plot and challenges you along with it.
The ending almost manages to halt the surrealistic movement of the story completely and make you focus, not just on the situation, but who these characters are and what they feel. You obtain a poignant and touching display of human persistence, while it being more grounded than the whole rest of the movie. In the end, you somehow get how they feel, even if it heavily involves brain washing.
An absolute must-watch.
My Score: 4/4
Trivia: The title of the movie is taken from a poem by Alexander Pope which goes as such.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Genre: Romance, Science-Fiction, Drama
Director: Michael Gondry (The Green Hornet)
Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation)
Studio: Focus Features
Starring: Jim Carrey (The Truman Show), Kate Winslet (Titanic), Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man), Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
IMDB:8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Metacritic: 89
Accolades Received:
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing
Writer's Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay
Accolades Nominated:
Academy Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay
Ceasar Awards - Best Foreign Film
BAFTA's - Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film
Synopsis (IMDB): A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
My Take:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It just about perfects everything, every line is perfect to the situation and the story at hand, the jumpy editing style is fitting to the scenes, and the story's absolute surrealism manages to capture realism at the same time. Seemingly contradictory, you'd be surprised of how it manages to make you feel, regardless of who you are, afterwards.
The story starts very peculiarly, giving us little background of the story as a whole. It's easy to be confused by the movie, but by center of the film involving the film's core topic is wholly gripping as you piece together the entire situation entirely. It develops an unorthodox way of unfolding the story, by traveling through the story in an extremely non linear method. It doesn't merely tell a story and be done with it, it tightly increases the emotional gravity of the plot and challenges you along with it.
The ending almost manages to halt the surrealistic movement of the story completely and make you focus, not just on the situation, but who these characters are and what they feel. You obtain a poignant and touching display of human persistence, while it being more grounded than the whole rest of the movie. In the end, you somehow get how they feel, even if it heavily involves brain washing.
An absolute must-watch.
My Score: 4/4
Trivia: The title of the movie is taken from a poem by Alexander Pope which goes as such.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
