I've just seen a movie called "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ". I checked in IMDB.COM before I saw it. The genre was Drama, Romance and Sci-fi. The sci-fi is my favorite so watching it gets a high priority. Now I have to say that it is beyond sci-fi. The other aspects are tenser and vastly affect my idea about the movie. Let me explain more.
Time line of the movie is so condensed that make you hazy at last if it is a story of 3 years or 3 days. Actually scenarist professionally combined the events with the characters memories. At first 20 minute of movie you are introduced with 3 different scenes in which people talk about Valentines Day (so 3 years resembles) but at the end of the movie you can imagine a day in doctor office, a night in home erasing memories and a day recovering their feelings and memories.
The only sci-fi aspect with the movie tackles very nice is the problem of human memory. Is there a unique memory for every event? Do our memories of a unique event affect each other? Can I change my memories or mix them together? Can someone eventually and completely erase memory of an event from his or her brain?
The last but not the least aspect of the movie in my opinion is the matter of love, simple love not the very sophisticated ones. In the movie we saw some couples who are in love in a sort of way. At the end we notice that they do every thing to erase their memories in order to forget their love and begin another but at last their efforts are in vain and they can not forget their feelings about love. Joel can't let them erase the sweetest memory of his love. Mary falls in love again with Howard. Clementine can't stop facing Joel in the last scene because she is still in love with him.
We all have lots of memories from childhood till now. We will gain a lot more until we die. We can easily remember the worst and the best ones but on remembering our sweet and lovely memories our feelings are an odd and sharp mix of sorrow and happiness. These feeling are very unique that nobody really likes to erase the background memories.
1 comment:
I liked the idea of hiding behind the deepest humiliating memories. They were the worst memories but helped Joel for the best.
The time line of movie was astounding, too. Just as the time line of the memory! That's Godard's idea you know, make films as you think about something, there's no first or second place in thinking about something.
It's a very intelligent movie indeed.
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