Michal Gondry’s film Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind dives into the power and importance of memories during the course of a person’s life. Whether these memories turn out to be good or bad, you are shaped by your surroundings and through your previous experiences. As Joel, who is masterfully played by Jim Carrey, rises disheveled out of his bed, you expect him to put on his clothes, go to work, and have a day just like any other. Yet, this scene is the beginning of a rollercoaster ride. While standing on the platform waiting for his train, Joel spontaneously calls out of work, runs to a different train, and ends up on the beach in Montauk. While trying to escape the troubles of his daily life, Joel is sitting on the beach and comes across …show more content…
These services allow Clementine to erase her memories of Joel as she attempts to completely forget about their experiences and love for each other. At this point, you may think Leonardo DiCaprio should have let Kate Winslet fall into the icy Atlantic while the Titanic sunk to it’s doom so poor Joel didn’t have to go through his heartbreak. As Joel begins to recognize that he is a figure of the past in Clementine’s life, he decides to undergo the operation and erase his memories of Clementine. The viewer is then transported into the mind of Joel, where the memories are being played back and subsequently destroyed and erased. As the viewer, there will be heaps of confusion and ambiguity, but if you stick with the movie, everything will play out in the end. The uniqueness and charm of the ending cannot be spoiled, it simply must be …show more content…
For the purpose of this movie, a memory is seen as a tangible object which can be wiped away, thrown out of the window, and erased like it simply never happened. To put it into terms, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind purely blew my mind. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, and even Elijah Wood entered the facets of my mind and made me think, what if this could actually happen? How would everything play out in the end? A serious Jim Carrey delivers a great role as Joel Barish, fluctuating from his previous roles in movies such as Dumb and Dumber or Bruce Almighty. The weirdness, seriousness, and obscurity Jim Carrey displays as the character Joel contributes to the greatness of this film. From his drawings on the beach to the memory of his toddler days, Joel is unlike any character in a movie that I have ever experienced. Joel brings energy, intrigue, and a dynamic personality to the
One of the main products of this movie that popped out to me was the stars. They all seemed to be great actors even though I only knew one of them. For example, I thought that Ian Michael Smith did a great job portraying Simon Birch. He made the movie cute and funny all at once. I also thought that Joseph Mazello did a great job portraying relatable feelings in the movie. You could tell by his facial expressions what his mood was. All the actors did a great job and I can’t pinpoint one of them who did worse than the
After experiencing a traumatic car crash, Michelle, the protagonist of director Dan Trachtenberg’s film 10 Cloverfield Lane, wakes up in an underground bunker owned by a man named Howard. Howard claims to have saved her from a widespread chemical attack that has contaminated the air, with his bunker being the only place to take refuge for the next couple of years. Yet as the film progresses, Howard’s controlling and threatening demeanor eventually brings Michelle to escape, allowing her to come across the actuality of the situation outside the isolated bunker. Throughout the production, Trachtenberg arranges close frames, manipulates the camera’s focus, and chooses specific lighting to create an ominous tone that mystifies and disturbs viewers.
He sheds new light on stereotypes that are not commonly broken. It truly was one of the many factors that made this film unique.
At the age of 9, a little girl is counting down the days until her next birthday because double digits are a big deal. Now she is 12 and is still counting the days until she can call herself a teenager. For years people cannot wait to be another year older… until they actually become older. As people grow up they accept that maturing means taking on responsibilities and adulthood. Having sleepovers and play-dates, taking naps, and climbing the monkey bars becomes taboo. The simplistic life of a child quickly changes into the dull reality of school and work. People will spend years wishing they were older; but when the time comes, they hope to go back to their innocence. In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger writes a stream of consciousness
One aspect of the film that the reviewers found to be positive was the performance of Matthew McConaughey. Carpenter states that, McConaughey does a “credible job
Although the film plays out in non-linear progression and is somewhat confusing at times, the audience quickly catches on to the plot. Joel and Clementine are in a relationship for two years before finally deciding to break it off. Like most couples, the two shared a lot of good memories but the fights that lead to their breakup were too emotionally heavy for free-spirited Clementine to bear any more. She pays some futuristic company ...
The Soloist (Foster, Krasnoff & Wright, 2008), is based on a true story of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. who develops psychosis and becomes homeless. In the film, Nathaniel is considered a cello genius who is discovered on the streets by Steve Lopez, a journalist from the Los Angeles Times. Steve was searching for a city story and he decided to write a newspaper article about Nathaniel. Nathaniel always had a passion for music. He was a child prodigy and attended Juilliard School of Music. However, he faced many complications at Juilliard, particularly hearing voices speaking to him. Unable to handle the voices, Nathaniel dropped out and ended up living on the streets of Los Angeles. Steve and Nathaniel develops an unexpected friendship, in which Steve tries to help Nathaniel to live a normal life; having a home, treat his mental disorder, and to fulfil his dream of being a cellist again.
In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
Then the sorrowness inside of the man was uplifted and he rose up from the sand and went to the
It’s known that in some areas of the world, girls as young as 14 years old can get a child. This fact, although it’s disturbing, can become meaningful according to the setting of a story. The locations, the culture and the historical context can sometimes clarify some events that have taken place in a book. It’s the case in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini and published in 2007 in which the setting clearly impacts the plot and the characters. First of all, let’s take a look to the setting itself.
In theory erasing a memory could help solve PTSD, as well as any mental illnesses stemming from memory based trauma. But, as I began watching the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind my opinion quickly changed. Erasing a traumatic memory in one’s life would be more destructive than beneficial. In the movie, Joel, the main character played by Jim Carrey and his love interest, Clementine, played by Kate Winslet, both go through a memory erasing treatment to forget the
The ending of the story is very effective as a cliff hanger. No one knows
In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) meet on a train to Montauk, New York, where they instantly become drawn to each other. They don’t know it at the time, but Joel and Clementine use to be in a relationship lasted two years and ended with heartbreak. Clementine, who is naturally spontaneous, hires a company called Lacuna Inc., and they specialize in erasing people memories. When Joel discovers that Clementine has erased him from her memories and has no idea who he is, he decides to do the same to her. The process happens when you are asleep, and the majority of the film is based in Joel’s own mind. We see his memories being erased one by one, from the end of the relationship to the beginning. Once Joel experiences a good memory with Clementine, he finds he doesn’t want to continue the procedure, but there is no way to stop it. Throughout the film he tries to preserve at least one memory of her, but he isn’t able to. The last memory of Clementine tells Joel to “Meet me in Montauk” (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
In The Shawshank Redemption, a film directed by Frank Darabont, Friendship is a prominent theme that is explored throughout the story of Andy Dufresne, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding and their imprisonment and subsequent friendship. Darabont uses a range of techniques in this film to convey that theme of friendship, such as lighting, dialogue, music/score, Camera angles, mise-en-scene and camera shots.
Perhaps, as in Housekeeping, memory houses a great paradox: the ability to create a false sense of completeness, the ability to provoke the most profound sense of loss. It is the paradox woven into the nature of memory which moves time forward. "The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted" (Housekeeping, 192).