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| | Description | Joel Barish goes through a procedure to remove memories of his girlfriend Clementine from his mind, only to realize the value of what they had as each | |
| | Product Details | | Actors: | Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood | | Director: | Michel Gondry | | Format: | Widescreen, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC | | Language: | English, French | | Subtitle: | Spanish, French | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Universal Studios | | Run Time: | 108 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | September 28, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 692 reviews |
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 Nice movie Aug 10, 2010
Love the movie, wish I would have just paid for regular shipping though because I think I would have gotten it at about the same time.
 Great movie. Jul 14, 2010
This movie arrived on time and I was very pleased with the condition. No complaints.
1 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 ETERNAL SUBTERRANEAN MAZE is more like it. Jul 10, 2010
It was an interesting film, but not at all what I expected. It started out with forlorn music and winter lighting. Winter is a time of depression for many people, and one way to beat winter depression is by exposing oneself to artificial sunlight. Since this movie had sunshine in the title, I expected a sunny movie. But the whole thing was dark and depressing to me.
Then there are the nightmarish aspects. It's not actually scary but it's disturbing. It's like one of those dreams you dream all night long and can't seem to wake up from. And since I don't like those kinds of dreams, I'm not inclined to watch this movie again.
I liked the story in many ways. And I know there was a positive side to it and an inspirational message. But I hated having to sit through all that depressing darkness and confusion just to get there. I agree with another reviewer that the movie is an expression of the postmodern ethos. And I'm getting damn tired of the postmodern ethos.
I love Kate Winslet. She's probably the most talented actor of her generation. I'm not a big Jim Carrey fan, but I liked him in the Truman Show and I liked him in this movie. It was the depressing lighting and nightmare-that-you-can't-wake-up-from story line that killed this movie for me.
Eternal Sunshine? It was more like an eternal subterranean maze with no exit and no sunshine at the end. This movie was really misnamed. I think the premise was a good one. But I think the director should have taken his own advice and let a little sunshine into this movie. It was far to dark, both in regard to lighting and in spirit. It could have been a feel-good movie. But in my opinion it was depressing. Life is depressing enough. Sometimes I need a story to remind me that life is worthwhile and to help me wash away the stresses of the day. This movie didn't do that for me.
0 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Garbage Jun 30, 2010
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Tasteless, pathetic, boring nonsense. Cartoonish bohemian characters. It is not funny or romantic.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
He Almost Made Me Forget ... Jun 27, 2010
.... Jim Carrey, I mean. He almost made me forget that he is eternally, recurrently, ineluctably "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective"! Almost, I say. He is a masterful actor, and he plays the sad sack Joel as plausibly as anyone could. But whatever slouch he adopts, whatever stubble covers his chin, he's still The Grinch, Loki, Truman, and above all Ace! Ventura! At some fundamental level of thespian craft, he fails. He needs the help of Dr. Mierzwiak to erase MY memories of his previous roles.
Kate Winslet has no such handicap. It never occurred to me to remember her in any other role. In this film, in the role of the 'impetuous' Clementine, she's every man's worst memory. If I'd survived hooking up with Clementine in my flaming youth, I'd pay to have the memory erased also. But this is a film about Recurrence - endless cycles of predestined Recurrence! - a Kosmic Kharma Komedy. "In this whole world / you can love but one girl / let me be that one girl / I'll be true to you", as the Shirelles sang when I was a teenager, with the implication that 'not only will you never be able to forget me after I dump you but you'll always always find another me.' In other words, this film is more a tragedy than a comedy, a coy examination of how vulnerable we humans are to our own psyches. No, amigos, that is NOT a happy ending.
But there's also a meta-message in the film: we are what we remember. Tampering with the brain, with memory, is risky business, a Dr Frankenstein trick. "Eternal Sunshine" is a sort of science fiction film. Plausibility isn't relevant. We the audience are supposed to think deeply about its implications. That might be where the film falls short; it's too zany for its concept to be taken seriously. All the flashbooks to memories being expunged, while Joel is unconscious, clash too bizarrely to stimulate much empathy. Joel at half size, hiding under his Mommy's kitchen table, is .... wait! He's ... Ace Ventura Pet Detective!
I skipped this film when it was first run. Who remembers why? But I had to see it now, after watching the film "Synecdoche New York" by the same screen-writer Charlie Kaufman. Frankly, "Eternal Sunshine" seems like a practice piece, a warm-up for the powerful expressiveness of "Synecdoche".
My wife watched "Eternal Sunshine" with me. She insisted that I include, in any review of it, her protest against the demeaning (she said) portrayal of the three women characters. But she also gave me permission to declare that the film was "entertaining."
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