Today’s movie is a romantic
comedy with a scene occurring on February 13. I hope you will enjoy this film
and watch it tonight.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS
MIND
[Although this movie definitely does not take place in
linear time, as it uses a lot of flashbacks, I’m going to tell it that way
because otherwise I don’t think either you or I could understand the summary].
Joel and Clementine meet at a
beach party at Montauk, New York and they soon become lovers, living together
for two years. However after a huge fight Clem goes to Lacuna, Inc. and has all memory of Joel ‘erased’. Joel
finds out about this when he goes to give her an early Valentine’s present and
she appears not to know him. He learns
about the company and decides to have Clem ‘erased’ from his memory. This is
done on February 13, 2004. [17:37 to 1:31:37] After the procedure begins he
starts reliving memories of his relationship in reverse order and realizes he
doesn’t want to forget her. He and the memory of Clem try to hide her in other
memories of Joel’s where she can’t be found and erased. The tech has to bring
in the head of the company Dr. Mierzwiak, to assist in finally ‘erasing’ her.
We learn that Patrick, one of the Techs who ‘erased’ Clem’s memory has used
info he learned about Clem to seduce her. Mary, the receptionist at Lacuna,
learns she had an affair with Dr. Mierzwiak, the memory of which she agreed to
have erased when his wife discovered it. In anger she steals the company’s
records and mails them to the clients. Meanwhile, on Valentine’s Day Joel wakes
up with no memory of Clem, but takes the day off and goes to Montauk where he
meets Clem and they start a relationship again. When they get the material from
Lacuna, they are shocked to learn they were in a relationship before. Clem wants
to end it now, as she thinks it will end the same way, but Joel convinces her
to stay.
A very different film. Explores
the relationship of love and memory. Very interesting cinematography.
Date given in film at 20:08 where Frank says Valentine’s is
one day away
Director - Michel Gondry
Awards - The film won the Oscar
for Best Original Screenplay and Kate Winslet was nominated for Best Actress.
Runtime - 1 hour 43 minutes
Released - March 19, 2004
Starring -
Jim Carrey as Joel Barish
Kate Winslet as Clementine
Kruczynski
Kirsten Dunst as Mary Svevo
Copyright 2014 by Ivan Walters
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