Clementine might apply her personality in a paste, but her hair color is a clear map of their timeline, much like the annotated brain scans that Dr. And when they meet anew in Montauk after both having their memories wiped, her hair is blue for sadness and a loss she cannot remember. Next, it is orange, the twilight of Clementine and Joel’s disintegrating relationship. The next time they meet at Barnes and Noble, her hair is bright red, signaling danger, but also love and passion.

It is green when they first meet on the beach in Montauk, a sign of growth, freshness, and something new blossoming. “I apply my personality in a paste,” Clementine tells Joel in a rare moment of self-deprecation, referring to her ever-changing hair color. Written by the master of the non-linear story Charlie Kaufman ( Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Synecdoche, New York ) and directed by surrealist auteur Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind remains one of the most perfect love stories ever made even 15 years later.

But since he’s unconscious, this proves not just challenging, but a feat with tragic consequences for Joel. But as Joel gets deeper and deeper into his own brain and re-lives some of his and Clementine’s more meaningful moments of intimacy, he decides to call it off. When Joel finds out what Clementine has done, he decides to erase her in retaliation even though she no longer has any idea who he is and has already moved on to a new boyfriend Patrick (Elijah Wood). The eternal sunshine of the spotless mindĮach prayer accepted, each wish resigned.Īfter a vicious fight and an increasingly toxic and stifling relationship, Clementine Cruczynski (Kate Winslet) elects a new medical procedure that allows her to erase all memories of her ex-boyfriend Joel Barish (Jim Carrey). 799 Shares How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot

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