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Synopsis Of ' Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind '

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The focus of my essay is going to be mainly on characterisation: how this two characters are constructed and how they interact with each other in this fragment, and on speech acts: what types of speech acts are performed in this fragment and what’s the intention behind them. This fragment was taken from the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It tells the story of Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski, two completely different persons who have been former lovers in the past two years but can’t recall it because both of them have had that memory erased from their minds. The film opens up with Joel, a very emotional and timid man who whilst being on the train station about to get a train to work, feels the urge to go to Montauk …show more content…

That explains why when they met at the beginning of the film, it was the first time they met each other after erasing each others memories. The fragment I have chosen takes place when Joel is getting the procedure done for the first time, and the first memory they erase happens to be the last memory they shared together, which funnily enough is nothing but an argument. After that, their relationship was over. In this scene Joel is waiting for Clementine, who has gone out without him and is coming home late and drunk. Joel is mad at her because of that but also, since this is the end of their relationship, they are are more susceptible to what each of them does, which contributes and can be clearly seen in this argument. They start arguing about Joel’s car, which Clementine has broke down because she was driving whilst being under the effects of alcohol. He is clearly not happy about that and he starts blaming her for possibly having cause some more damage apart from the car. They start to get more angry at each other, specially from the moment Joel calls Clementine a “wino” and since Clementine is clearly offended by that she points out to Joel that the only reason he is mad at her is because he is contemplating the possibility of her having had sexual relationships with another person that is not him, which is something he wouldn’t like to happen. But Joel response to that is that he assumes she has done that, since that

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