and Tom Wilkinson plays the doctor in charge of giving his clients “selective” brain damage. Kirsten Dunst plays the secretary at Lacuna, Inc.
#TRADITIONAL CLEMENTINE MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE#
Did you ever notice that since Gene Siskel has died, Roger Ebert gets first billing with “Ebert & Roeper”? I wonder what Siskel would have thought of “The Passion of the Christ”? I can’t remember if he dug that pretentious Oliver Stone movie “The Doors,” featuring Jim Morrison’s spiritual naked Indian guide.Īfter a fight with Joel, Clementine impulsively has him erased from her memory. I’m sitting here and I just forgot every single thing I was going to write. More time is spent on the universal themes of loneliness and need, and how Joel and Clementine are perfect together because they will never be perfect for each other. There is no hairy midget baby, no darkly shrouded Satan woman, and no naked mystical Indians to be found. I have to stress, however, that “Eternal Sunshine” is not just weird for weird’s sake. The old-fashioned notion that the thrust of the story must be obvious is erased like an unpleasant memory in favor of a surreal, puzzle-like middle act. The first and third acts are relatively sane, narration-wise, but also very short. An inevitable pull between the two slowly develops.Īs with many of Kaufman’s screenplays and Gondry’s music videos (Björk, Chemical Brothers), “Eternal Sunshine” relies more heavily on atmosphere and hidden meanings than on any sort of traditional structure. Instead, we meet the eccentric Clementine (Kate Winslet), no jokes about her name please. We hear talk of Naomi, his fiancée, but we never see her. Jim Carrey, cast way against type, is excellent as Joel, a shy and inward man incapable of initiating contact with a woman. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is the amazing new collaboration between writer Charlie Kaufman (“Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation”) and director Michel Gondry (“Human Nature”). Attraction is something not to be trifled with, a dangerous thing.
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