kate winslet eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

This is most often seen in his pop videos.

Like Kaufman, he is an artist with very much his own vision, part childish fantasy, part animation, with a surrealists disregard for logic and physics. But thats not unusual for Michel Gondry. The early scenes, when Joel ( Jim Carrey) encounters Clementine ( Kate Winslet) are accompanied by whimsical music plinky-plonking away in the background and giving the film the air of a dated childrens programme. Structurally, this is a work of genius, weaving the waking and sleeping plots together so effortlessly yet skilfully. During the lucid dreaming scenes, the dialogue between Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Kirsten Dunst feeds into the visions we see. Therefore we can spot the difference between actual reality and altered dream reality instantly.

That makes the film sound nose-bleedingly complex and yet it is surprisingly easy to follow, because director Michel Gondry is a master of creating dream imagery. Like Christopher Nolans Memento, this film relies on forgetfulness but, unlike Nolans taut, anxiously precise film, this story doesnt proceed in a strict reverse gear, instead it jumps around within its own continuity and manages to run backwards and forwards at the same time. This is about as non-linear a film as you are ever likely to see, jumping around, seemingly randomly, between beginning, middle and end. These are available for free implicitly with Kaufmans blessing because, I imagine, if he were unhappy about this, with just a phone-call, he could have it shut down and he hasnt! Meanwhile, back at his Gordian plot: Eternal Sunshine is, at heart, a simple love story Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again But Kaufman approaches this simple structure like a novelist, unravelling it and wrapping it back up in a completely different way he uses our familiarity with it and plays with both us and it. His films are clever and they make you feel clever while youre watching them! If youre at all interested to read the kind of scripts that writing gurus live in fear of (because they dont conform to arbitrary rules of structure and style) you can read all of his produced scripts here on his unofficial (but exhaustively and lovingly compiled) website. Yes, I know Aaron Sorkin writes better individual lines and The Coen Brothers create richer characters and Allan Loeb is, well, busier but no one gets into the foundations of narrative and deconstructs a story whilst telling it quite like Charlie Kaufman. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, now available on Blu-Ray, won him what will, I have no doubt, be the first of many Oscars and it isnt even his best work. Rating: 4.5 Charlie Kaufman is one of the half-dozen greatest scriptwriters working in Hollywood today and every actor who gets to utter his words should count themselves lucky.

Kate winslet eternal sunshine of the spotless mind