Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind DVD

Advantages: A fantastic script, brilliantly acted and directed producing one of the best films of 2004
Disadvantages: Can be confusing if dialogue and visual imagery is not followed closely or misunderstood

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of those pictures I would normally try and avoid. The hideous spot trailers promoting the film on television recently, coupled with an equally expansive title reminiscent of the sickly sweet Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, held up immediate warning signs - "you are now entering a chick flick zone, do not step any further beyond this point if you value your credibility!" What I did not know ...
...to take her to watch Eternal Sunshine at the cinema (recompense for making her sit through Evil Dead 2 again the previous night) despite my reservations behind the awful trailer! Luckily, as always, she was right to have her way - the film is conceptually visualised by director Michael Gondry around the typical style and themes that Kaufman invites within his script. Meaning you are about to enter a realm of wonderfully visualised and disjointed ... Read review

Advantages: Touching love story with excellent performances from Carrey and Winslet told in a very visual style
Disadvantages: Occasionally has scenes that feel unfocused and repetitive

...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" - Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope where Eloisa envies the virgins who have no memories of passion to torment them. ... Read review

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...oh my darling Clementine...' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry, written by Charlie Kaufman, is about Joel and Clementine, a couple who use some computer technology mixed with experimental psychology, to try to erase each other from their memories, but then they realize what they had together, they try and fight to keep it, but the procedure they have set in motion is not easily stopped. The story is based around the ...
...loved Adaptation, and I feel Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is even better than that. The philosophical connotations in the script are genuine questions. Are we all on an inevitable course, with no control over our actions? What are we without our memories, even the not so nice ones? Is it better we don't know some things? Jon Brion is responsible for the ambient music score. Incidentally, the title of the film is a quote from an 18th century ... Read review

Advantages: Different, imaginative, satisfyingly ambiguous, visually inventive.
Disadvantages: It's not what the trailer leads you to expect

...films to date. Eternal Sunshine is the story of Joel (Jim Carrey), a shy man lacking in confidence with women who never does anything spontaneous. Until, that is, one morning he abandons waiting for his train to work and instead heads to the beach. There he encounters Clementine (Kate Winslet), a blue-haired woman with no compunctions about approaching strangers and starting conversations, and the two of them hit it off. The film jumps in a confusingly ...
...have seen the trailer for Eternal Sunshine, and there will not be many regular cinema goers who managed to avoid it, will probably be expecting an upbeat fast snappy funny quirky film. It comes as quite a surprise to find that, though undeniably quirky and with some very funny moments, this is actually quite a dark exploration of a relationship falling apart. Where in some films the central concept of watching someone revisiting their own memories ... Read review

Advantages: well cast, visually astounding, satisfying story
Disadvantages: misleading trailer

...the end remarkably touching. Eternal Sunshine has all of the weird creativity that has suffused Kauffman’s previous scripts, but this is a story that is ultimately more satisfying as it refuses to stumble at the third act and carries us straight through to its glorious finish. This is a movie that manages to be poignant, showing all the little quirks of a relationship and its darker moments, without ever coming across as saccharine. The arguments ...
...beautiful moments we see when they believe that no other moment will ever be as perfect again. There’s a sincerity and realism present here that makes for utterly compelling viewing. With a cast that’s pitch-perfect, an extraordinary story to tell, stunning cinematography, dazzling special effects and a director who has a very good idea of what he’s doing, this is a remarkable film: rich and fantastic, bittersweet and deep, and quite, quite brilliant. ... Read review