tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post6971106781984212676..comments2024-01-27T00:19:36.912-08:00Comments on Coleman's Corner in Cinema...: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)Coleman's Corner in Cinema...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-48649418835436759972012-02-22T18:37:54.579-08:002012-02-22T18:37:54.579-08:00A brief overview of the topic of the article, and ...A brief overview of the topic of the article, and any background info or research you may have<br />A little tip: always ask for samples of the writer’s work. Be sure it’s interesting and well-written, and makes sense to you. Don’t <br />always go for the cheapest! 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Kate Winsle...One of the best movies of this decade. Kate Winslet is amazing here. Too bad she had to win tonite for a mediocre flick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-20553236348803760932009-02-22T14:32:00.001-08:002009-02-22T14:32:00.001-08:00zoozooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-26519321361940770382009-02-22T14:32:00.000-08:002009-02-22T14:32:00.000-08:00zoozooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-61570173075328645462009-02-19T12:01:00.000-08:002009-02-19T12:01:00.000-08:00Interestingly, Daniel, I decided to use this as a ...Interestingly, Daniel, I decided to use this as a rationale for re-watching all of Kaufman's penned films, leading up to this one, a few weeks back. Quite an experience. I was especially happy to see one of my loves from 2002 (one of the best film years in my honest opinion), <I>Adaptation</I>, has held up rather beautifully.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-7416036989297711422009-02-19T08:30:00.000-08:002009-02-19T08:30:00.000-08:00I think it confounded me in the theater, to be hon...I think it confounded me in the theater, to be honest, but I remember very much appreciating Carrey and Winslet. Point is, I need to see it again ASAP, as is the case with all of Kaufman's stories.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-66953782460429975442009-02-18T23:08:00.000-08:002009-02-18T23:08:00.000-08:00Wow, Dennis, thank you very much for your supremel...Wow, Dennis, thank you very much for your supremely kind, thoughtful and engaging comment! I'm quite humbled by all of it, especially the "Alexander the Great" part, haha!<BR/><BR/>Yes, you make a truly fabulous point about the science-fiction serving as a springboard for something entirely different. It's a device, like in a Woody Allen film (or, um, a Kaufman screenplay) that allows the tale to be most effectively told--for all of the reasons I describe in the review and more. Thank you also for bringing the point about the personal component you specifically brought to the film with regards to your past relationship(s)--<I>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</I> is the rare film that speaks with near universality to those who have been felled by Cupid, and lost that quintessential bond. <BR/><BR/>Thank you again very much, Dennis, for the extensively kind words, and I too look forward to having a splendid time discussing and debating with you. And as I say to all newcomers, don't be afraid to look into the archive section, which can be an especially rewarding area to look at when I'm too busy to update the blog, as I've been this past week... though I promise to begin posting a new batch of reviews in the coming days. <BR/><BR/>It's truly wonderful to hear from you, Dennis.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-36975542407962003202009-02-18T17:31:00.000-08:002009-02-18T17:31:00.000-08:00Alexander The Great,I was turned on to your site t...Alexander The Great,<BR/><BR/>I was turned on to your site through Wonders in the Dark, and came upon this blisteringly brilliant piece of one of the most unusual and thought-provoking films of the past decade. While I would hate to go on with just a simple comment on my love for this film, I feel a few mere sentences wouldn't do your review justice. Allow me to say that aside from agreeing with everything you said, I also fell in love with this film for emotional reasons, having had one or two great lost loves in my life. What I love about Kaufman (and ultimately Gondry) is that they masquerade the romance as science-fiction to springboard the audience into something that they are not expecting. When I first read a synopsis of this film a week before its release, I just figured I'd get a rehash of something like "Minority Report". How pleasantly surprised I was to find out my assumptions were wrong.<BR/><BR/> I will be watching your website closely, as it seem sthat you and I may have a few things in common. Keep up the amazing work, and looking forward to some healthy debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-32619174254124067022009-02-18T12:15:00.000-08:002009-02-18T12:15:00.000-08:00No shame in that admission, Daniel. There are so m...No shame in that admission, Daniel. There are so many films, there are sure to be ones that you do not revisit for a long period of time. I hope you see it again soon, however. What did you think of it when you saw it in theaters? Thank you for the kind words.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-30912471563751890882009-02-17T11:34:00.000-08:002009-02-17T11:34:00.000-08:00I feel like I'm outing myself amongst devoted film...I feel like I'm outing myself amongst devoted film bloggers, but here goes: I've only seen this film once, in the theater!<BR/><BR/>Doesn't seem like that's the case with anybody these days. Such as it is, this treatment is really making another viewing of it urgent.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-39620790418101505372009-02-16T16:26:00.000-08:002009-02-16T16:26:00.000-08:00Thank you very much for the kind words, Hedwig.I'm...Thank you very much for the kind words, Hedwig.<BR/><BR/>I'm most pleased to hear that your boyfriend ended up enjoying this after being reluctant. This was your first Valentine's Day with him, yes? I hope it was wonderful. <I>Eternal Sunshine</I> probably helped in making it so. <BR/><BR/>Yes, it sounds like this last time we watched it, we both came to similar conclusions about how terrific a film more directly about Clementine and her past and mind would be. She is, objectively speaking, the more <I>interesting</I> character--or at least the more hypnotically rendered one. Kate Winslet obviously had a great deal to do with that. She's such a force of nature, you almost wonder if she would be too much in the "lead" position, but I cannot help but wonder, all the same. <BR/><BR/>It also sounds like we are on the same page insofar as seeing Joel as the character with whom we relate. Being too introverted and shy has been a hindrance to me, and was especially so in my teenage years. Like Joel, I am vastly more naturally comfortable writing than speaking. In fact, I probably have too many emotional and psychological simmilarities to Joel, even now, but I'm in Kaufman, Gondry and Carrey's debt for allowing me to learn from him. <BR/><BR/>Great films are indeed like you say they are. Especially ones that hit you personally. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts, as I knew you revere this film.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-76061354038123041682009-02-16T13:59:00.000-08:002009-02-16T13:59:00.000-08:00Wow, great piece. I watched it again on Saturday (...Wow, great piece. I watched it again on Saturday (the initially reluctant b/f ended up liking it a lot), and what I noticed for the first time now is something you also picked up on: we're really seeing this from Joel's eyes, and as great as the movie is, I'd love to see Clementine's take on things, I'd love to see how SHE fought against his disappearance from her mind... <BR/><BR/>At the same time though, Joel's the character I identify with most, though I've come a long way from the rather silent, introspective, keeping-to-herself teenager that I once was. <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Like all great movies, this one feels like it was made especially for me...sounds like you feel the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-54853636653906797612009-02-15T21:37:00.000-08:002009-02-15T21:37:00.000-08:00Thank you so much, Sam. Your words are a comfort a...Thank you so much, Sam. Your words are a comfort and are as always completely appreciated for being so rich, honest and exhaustively kind. I am overwhelmed by <I>your</I> response, my friend. Thanks again.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-29798688607592940822009-02-15T20:08:00.000-08:002009-02-15T20:08:00.000-08:00ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is a dizzyin...ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is a dizzying and eclectic film that is a venerable blend of science-fiction, psychological thriller and romance. In the end, it's a haunting exploration of the nature of memory of love. I think you broach this directly late in the review with this:<BR/><BR/>"It is in that reclamation, of memory, of love, of life—what would people be, by which means would they be informed without all of their memories?"<BR/><BR/>The film is simultaneously expressionistic and "claustrophic", as it corrals the idea of what it is to be in love, presenting complex and brilliantly developed characters, through highly unconventional storytelling. Th eperformance of Kate Winslet is piercing, and the finest of her career as Clementine (your use of the word "sublime", innocuous enough, is actually perfect here methinks.)<BR/><BR/> Here are some of your brilliant perceptions, all of which I completely agree with you on:<BR/><BR/>"Eternal Sunshine is fundamentally about gaps, in time, and in space, and doubtless chiefly in the mind. Memory for a character is itself is to be assaulted, as it has so many ugly ornaments of nostalgia for the sweet times, loathing and regret for the bitter episodes."<BR/><BR/>"The very problem is in its least troublesome vein a complementary personable dichotomy; where Clementine lacks introspection—which she chooses to stave off with alcohol—Joel is acutely self-aware to the point of self-destructively tethering himself to all of his idiosyncratic ways of questioning himself".<BR/><BR/>"One of the attributes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that cannot go unexamined is its pulsating, prevailing romanticism".<BR/><BR/>But there are several other challenging passages here (a number which I needed to read twice to fully appreciate their brilliance) that dissect this impressionistic masterpiece, and your greatest achievement of all is your exhaustive study of Joel and Clementine. You don't celebrate the film's brighter context, as you indicate you rightly see the darkness in the work.<BR/><BR/>Yet, you never lose site of the light at the end of the tunnel with this:<BR/><BR/><BR/>"For the trajectory of hate and abyssal disappointment to be reached, love must have been an occupant for an extended period of time."<BR/><BR/> Yet, for the first time I have ever visited Coleman's Corner I confess to being overwhelmed, as there is simply so much more to talk about (your review is a cornucopia of ideas, theories and insightful assertions) It would be course take more than leaving a comment.<BR/><BR/>Suffice to say, your Valentine's Day post has been unanimously voted into the Coleman's Corner Hall of Fame. It's utter brilliance on an utterly brilliant film.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-10589328403509435372009-02-15T16:40:00.000-08:002009-02-15T16:40:00.000-08:00if there is no solution there is no problem.if there is no solution there is no problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-42259587129152485352009-02-15T12:11:00.000-08:002009-02-15T12:11:00.000-08:00Thank you, Ben. You are too kind.Thank you, Ben. You are too kind.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-24851094360561357332009-02-15T12:09:00.000-08:002009-02-15T12:09:00.000-08:00Magisterial. Truly, Mr. Coleman.Magisterial. Truly, Mr. Coleman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-62372755142319516262009-02-15T03:01:00.000-08:002009-02-15T03:01:00.000-08:00Wow, thank you, Sergei. Very touching. And again, ...Wow, thank you, Sergei. Very touching. <BR/><BR/>And again, just to reiterate from my last post--I greatly love all of the less young people who visit and comment at CCC! Almost all of my best friendships are with older people! Haha. :)Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.com