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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind provides a good example of the possibility of presenting philosophical concepts in a fictional feature film. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is science fiction based romantic and comedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and is directed by Michel Gondry. The film is based on romance and mainly the scientific aspect to explore and flourish the nature of the human memory. The film was presented to the viewers in March 2004

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie about both the value of memory and, because every sci-fi movie ever has this theme, playing God. Let us focus more on the memory because in my opinion it just more interesting. Joel, after his ex-girlfriend Clementine stops recognizing him, discovers she went to a clinic that allows for a memory to be removed precisely from a person's brain. Devastated, he decides to go to through the same procedure himself. Most of the movie takes place in Joel's

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind possess a sense of hyperconsciousness in the way that it presents a postmodern text in the debts of a science fiction drama. There are undertones in the writing, directing and editing that establish the postmodernism in the film. The structure of the movie is non-linear. The narrative is told backwards which constructs disorientation within the film. This implies that as humans we dwell on past experiences as they mould us and we find it hard to move on from it

Meet me in Montauk Have you ever wanted a bad memory erased? Is love erasable? These questions are attacked head on in the wonderfully complex drama Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. After working together on the film Human Nature, director Michael Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman discussed the possibility whether or not they would have their memory erased of a bad relationship should the opportunity present itself (dvdtalk). Out of that discussion a movie idea was formulated, pitched

the better of our mistakes if we forget about them? Do forgetting and ignorance make us better people? Does oblivion make us happier? Is it worth going out of our way to make sure we forget? These are the kinds of questions Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind addresses. Even though it is one of those movies which grapples with immense philosophical concepts, it does so effortlessly and without seeming elitist or pretentious. In this romance-science-fiction-comedy hybrid Charlie Kaufman 's amazing

The film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind directed by Michel Gondry follows two ex-lovers during their breakup. The protagonist of the movie, Joel Barish, is a middle aged man living in Long Island that lives a dull life. However, this all changes as soon as he meets a young woman at a party named Clementine Kruczynski. Immediately drawn to her colorful personality, clothing, and hair Joel became engulfed in her, wanting to know all of her interworking’s and emotions. It didn’t take long

Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski were a couple in love. Everything changed when Clementine woke up one day and just decided to have Joel erased from her memory. He was “boring” and she wasn’t happy and wanted to move on. Joel then decided he wanted to also remove Clementine from his memory. This was all possible due to Lacuna Inc. who asked those wishing to remove a particular person from their memories to remove anything from their homes that could possibly be associated with that person. They

philosophers. In this paper I will be speaking of the relations between a film and two sections we read. The film is the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and excerpts are from The Good Life by Charles Guignon including Rousseau’s theories on happiness, and Sarte’s theories of free will that all inter relate. In The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a very meek Joel and the crazy Clementine start a relationship on a train across New York. They seem to be drawn to each other despite that

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” takes place in Montauk, New York, where Joel and Clementine meet at a beach on long island and are almost immediately drawn to each other despite their different personalities. And what they don't know is that they were former lovers that each went under a procedure to have every memory wiped of each other after their breakup, now seperated after spending two years together. The movie directed by Gondry is unique by telling a love story backwards with the use

The story Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind written by Charles Kaufman is a complicated one about the relationships between destiny, memories, and attraction. It very strangely documents the attempt of one man, Joel, with the help of a futuristic medical procedure, to completely erase all of his memories of his ex-girlfriend Clementine from his mind, only to regret the decision once the procedure begins taking effect. The conflict Joel deals with in regretting his decision over the procedure