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Saturday, 20 March 2004

Mr. Blue Sky

Thursday night we saw "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Rob won a free pass for 2 to a sneak preview of it from Entertainment Weekly. Cool! It was probably pretty much what you'd expect from the previews. Overall I liked it. It was a little sad and weird but pretty good. We'll have to see if Rob Reed does a movie review.

Meanwhile, for more info, which will give away stuff about the movie, click below.

So Joel and Clementine are the characters. Joel erases his memory after finding out that Clementine erased him from hers. But as it's happening and he's seeing his memories disappear he decides he doesn't want the procedure anymore so he tries to hide her strange places in his mind like childhood memories. It doesn't work though - in the end he is watching his last remaining memory of her disappear - the day they met. But as she's disappearing she tells him "Meet me in Montauk" and the next day he finds himself inexplicably inclined to go there where he meets her again and they start over. However, they soon find out about their shared history because of another tangent in the story - they both get their files from the Lacuna Inc. place mailed to them. They listen to their audio tapes about what they hated about the other one that drove them to erase their memories but they can't really believe them because they like each other so much now, just having met. In the end they decide to try again. I guess what you take away from it is that it's worth it to go through the bad times just to have had the good. "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" and all that.

You have to suspend disbelief a bit and there are problems with the movie, but overall I liked it and found it kind of sad and strange but good.

Posted: Mar 20, 2004 12:35

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