Thus, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a film not only about the nature of love, but also about the nature of life. Any reflections, digging into oneself, even without any fantastic technologies, are incompatible with this nature, and vice versa: the one who knows how to perceive life as a miracle that you create anew every day will get a chance to become happy.Įxplaining the title of the film, they usually indicate that this is a quote from the poem of the famous English poet A. Merzviyak makes it possible to bring the memory erasing procedure to the end. Well-established technology fails when a person internally resists manipulations with his consciousness, and love still remains to live somewhere deep in the subconscious.īut what then is love, and, more broadly, our life, if, on the one hand, memory can be corrected, and on the other, what is happening in consciousness can be perceived as reality? How not to get lost in the chaos of emotions, the conflict between the conscious and the subconscious, how to understand what you need? After watching the film, the answer suggests itself: leave the past alone and live in the here and now. Among the quotes cited by Mary, Leo Tolstoy’s thought is clearly missing: nothing is important except what you are doing at the moment. And that is what life and love are. In the plot of “Eternal Lights …” two themes are closely intertwined: love and memory. Making Joel and Clementine fall in love first, then quarrel, then decide to erase each other from their memory, and then meet and fall in love again, the filmmakers prove: if people are made for each other, they will still be together. The originality of this, in general, a simple story is given by the appeal of the heroes to “Lacuna” – a small company engaged in erasing memory. If everything went smoothly with Clementine among the company’s employees, then Joel turns out to be a difficult client, and only the intervention of Dr. What is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind really about?Įveryone who has watched “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is divided into two parts. The first and most part speaks of the film enthusiastically, the second – much less – shrugs. Meanwhile, there is reason to assert that both categories of viewers did not fully understand Michel Gondry’s film, because while some see it as a delightful romantic story, others see it as a boring and somewhat secondary romantic story. But is Eternal Sunshine really a somewhat convoluted tale of love between two opposites?
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