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
Posted on: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:13:00 +0000
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