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April 16, 2004
Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
My father and Jo were in town yesterday so I took the day off to play host. BeerWorks for lunch and then the MFA and later went to see the movie and finished off with a nice dinner at Bombay Club.
The movie was really excellent, using a similar scheme to Memento but working much better in terms of sense, plot and believability. Accepting the McGuffin of the memory-erasure treatment, the plot really made pretty good sense. I felt the Kirsten Dunst et. al stuff didn't work so well and was mostly thrown in as a way to send out the files but that was certainly worth doing and some of the external dialogue intruding into Carrey's memory world worked pretty well too. Carrey and Winslet also do an excellent job of acting - likable and believable in their roles. The movie also nicely leaves one contemplating, as one walks out, the interesting question of "What will happen this time?" given what they know from the files and tapes. Knowing in advance what their problems together are likely to be, can they work through them and learn to accept each others weaknesses to a degree and change enough to allow this. ****1/2
Posted by aarondf at April 16, 2004 03:19 PM
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