Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Analysis

For Michel Gondry’s film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I will give an analysis the technology and sound in film and film history by using some research from Monaco’s book in chapter two & four. My analysis of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reveals the challenges that directors encounter when filming: having to explore the history of past filmmakers in order to prevent making mistakes and having to add touch up special effects to make the film feel more universal and credible for a modern audience.
In the beginning of the film, there are a few scenes where Joel (Jim Carrey) is driving a car and weeping over the desolation of him being alone since his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) had forgotten everything about him; Thinking back to that scene, it seemed very simple to shoot until I read the following quote from Monaco in chapter two about the process of filming scenes in cars “Shooting a simple automobile scene can be a time consuming and daunting task. Lights, camera, reflectors, diffusers, and

After watching the film for a second time I paid attention to small details I hadn’t the first time and noticed new things such as a pattern with clementine’s hair and special meanings to some of the situations that occur in Joel’s imaginative head. “The postmodernist films have characters and stories that may be just as interesting— but they see them through an extra layer of metafiction: they call attention to the way they are told, their narrative technique. Unlike all their summer counterparts few of the winter films pay much attention to special effects, digital or otherwise. For these filmmakers, the startling ways in which it is possible to manipulate the image are… beside the point. They are more interested in all the different ways you can tell a story. Narrative is their obsession” (Monaco,