I just came out of (finally!) seeing "Eternal Sunshine." I'd kind of thought about it, I guess, but I still hadn't forgiven Kaufmann for the masturbatory (can I say that on a blog?) mess that was Adaptation. Yes, he was willing to tell some awful truths about the creative process, ones that any grad student knows too well--but the movie was stilted, strange1.
And I knew very little about the director, and Jim Carrey isn't necessarily a positive ad for a thougtful movie. This movie is just as much a Jim Carrey movie as it is an Elijah Woods movie. And that's without the pointy ears.2.
But Metamanda saw me at CHI, and insisted that I MUST see the movie. And then four other people standing around said, "What, you haven't seen Ethernal Sunshine? Go see it!"3
So--without spoilers, without discussion of the stunning editing and directing and design and storytelling; without commenting on its brilliant meditiations on how relationships are, and how they end--I will simply shout, as loud as I can, "Go see it!"
1 It didn't help saw it the same weekend that I saw The Crime of Father Amaro which is a lesson that controversy + star power does not necessarily add to a good movie.
2 It is, however, something that doesn't surprise Tom Wilkinson and Kate Winslet fans.
3 Yes, they liked it more than Barbarella, the Musical even!
May 15, 2004 12:36 AM | TrackBack | in Movies