Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Vacuuming the Corners of the Mind
The Santa Fe New Mexican › March 28, 2004
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Summary
Charlie Kaufman is one of a handful of screenwriters whose names can kindle interest in a movie, and I can't think right now who the others are. The Oscar-nominated creator of Being John Malkovich set the bar high with that brilliant debut screenplay, and after a sophomore-jinx misadventure with the poorly received Human Nature, he has since delivered impressively with the George Clooney- directed Chuck Barris bio, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and then Adaptation, which netted him his second best-screenplay nomination from the Academy. This one could earn him a third.
Kaufman's laboratory in all of these efforts is the human mind, but in Eternal Sunshine he spills over into the human heart. The picture was inspired by French conceptual artist Pierre Bismuth's idea of handing out cards to people saying, "You have been erased from the memory" of so-and-so and then recording their reactions. (Bismuth, along with director Michel Gondry, shares story credit here with Kaufman.)See the full content of this document
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Vacuuming the Corners of the Mind
It's hard to know how much to say about this movie without giving away something that might compromise the head games Kaufman is playing. There
are developments with which I had issues of logic, but you'll have to...See the full content of this document
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