movies like eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

There’s a melancholy, end-of-the-world mood to the couple’s final scenes in Joel’s head: the blooming of their love and its obliteration, in the same instant. And as they erase Joel’s synaptic hiding places, the house of his childhood ages and crumbles before our eyes, fences blow away, faces dissolve into rubbery blanks, passersby disappear. They say he’s “off the map,” and they hunt around his brain for his new whereabouts. These are wildly funny scenes-but they’re scary, too, and surreal, like little body-snatcher movies. Movie 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat Movie Workshop Linear time is a construct of the ego, and you may notice that most of your thoughts during the day relate to the past and the future. Joel flees with his mental Clementine to places in his life that he hasn’t supplied to his memory erasers-places where she couldn’t have been, like his kitchen when he was 4 years old and curled up under a kitchen table staring at a baby sitter in a short dress and white boots (now impersonated by Clementine), or the time when some bullies made him smash a dead bird with a hammer. In farce, the hero runs in and out of doors here, he runs in and out of doors of perception-in and out of blurs. Movies that relate to real life events and touch the audiences hearts through strong emotional appeal also help create good movie standards. The legendary music-video director Michel Gondry and his cinematographer, Ellen Kuras, get to strut their stuff in these sequences: Their style is glancing and (literally) vaporous.

Movies like eternal sunshine of the spotless mind