Understanding it.. a li'l more

In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman and Gondry have created, explains Bregman, “a love story in reverse.”

When Lacuna’s memory-erasing process is initiated on Joel (Jim Carrey), the turbulent love affair he had with Clementine (Kate Winslet) begins to unfold – backwards. The first memories that replay are the most recent, and therefore the most volatile. However, as the more painful moments are washed away, the more tender and optimistic times together are revealed – and Joel falls in love with Clementine all over again.

With warmth and emotion, it starts off at the point where two people are tired of each other. Then it moves backwards, telling how they got that way, to the beginning – that first blush of attraction. Then it wraps around itself and goes back to the end again, so that when these two characters get back into their relationship, they do it with the knowledge of what their relationship will become. That was the first time I had seen anything like that in a script.

“You see why people are attracted to each other, why people fall in love, why people fall out of love, why you get sucked into the mundaneness of a relationship after a long time. Some of this is hilarious, and some of it is painful; you see how frail and unstable relationships actually are.”

Golin states, “It’s a very honest movie in terms of what the difficulties in a relationship are. People will be able to relate to Joel and Clementine in this relationship – the good and the bad.”

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