Essays on Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry have created a film whose mission was to make a tribute to the self-erasing memory and its fragility through the company Lacuna, which is a workplace that claims they can erase people from your memories. The movie is saturated with Kaufman’s affection...
Boy meets girl. Girl forgets boy. Boy forgets girl. And then things really start to get interesting. Jim Carrey hides while Kate Winslet looks on in a surprisingly original sequence If you’ve seen any film penned by Charlie Kaufman, such as Being John Malkovich or Adaptation, you may assume you’re in for a zany, envelope-pushing,...
Abstract For my final paper I will be discussing Theodore Adorno’s ideas of standardization and pseudo-individualism in regard to its impact on current day movies. Adorno’s theory basically states that all things are the same but masked to seem different, and I will prove that using the six arcs of storytelling. A study completed by...
The 1990s was a launching ground for indie filmmaking to become a major success thanks to the Sundance Film Festival’s increased presence with alumni’s like Steven Soderbergh or Quentin Tarantino, but when the 2000s came along independent productions exerted more creative influence in the typical major Hollywood-dominated market. Additionally, a new type of social culture...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film that incorporates romance, drama and science fiction. It is based around a man in his middle age called Joel Barish who falls in love with a girl called Clementine Kruczynsk. Later their two years relationship started to fall apart, and Clementine erases all the memory she...