Right from the film’s opening title, we see text falling & fading much as the mechanisms of memory experience trace decay (essentially, a form of gradual attrition over a temporal (time-based) gradient). Memory (namely episodic event-based) is the revolving construct of which the film entwines, it is the foundation of our very being, a pictorial collection of our experiences – and consequently, an area of ourselves which we may be better off retaining or removing (depending on your personal perspective). In the continuation of this article, I will only lightly brush over the poem the film was named after, the imagery, neuroscience, and some analysis regarding the film’s conclusion (as these are factors of more relevance to the motif of my blog) my approbation of the film is immense, though I don’t want to seem importuning, I fully recommend a watch. Whether enjoyed for it’s aesthetic displays, philosophical meanings or romantic representations well-deserved appreciation has befallen this 2004 Charlie Kaufman classic. Getting them out of your heart is another story“įollowing my first-ever watch of the critically enjoyed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with my partner, I am to no extent surprised at how beloved the film is amongst the communities of Romantic-Drama & Jim Carrey fans alike. One of many visioned-memories seeming highly-representative of how our memories are essentially constructed rather than directly recollected

Sunshine spotless mind