Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 Director: Michael Gondry |
Quite possibly one of my favourite films of all time, Eternal Sunshine is a sequentially intricate Kaufman script dealing with love and love in decline. There's a lot of my idealization of love in this film, in the concept of an "eternal sunshine" of a relationship, where love is never eroded away by the pressure of intimacy and habit, and the past memory of love is never eclipsed by the misfortune, langour or rage of the present, and survives to sustain the future. It's visually compelling, and Jim Carrey gives an astoundingly atypical performance (that is to say, the role does not depend on him pulling strange faces and cracking an unfortunate series of unbearable jokes). I watched Eternal Sunshine in the cinema, sitting behind a couple who complained loudly and irascibly throughout the entire film that they were thoroughly confused and had no idea why parts of the film were being repeated. I therefore give Eternal Sunshine an "M" rating, i.e. not for morons. |