Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Movie Review

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd?”

For those who have not yet experienced how exactly it feels like to hold back to something that once changed your life. How exactly beauty turns out to be the ugliest form of truth you’ve known. How a man desperately tries to catch something he gave up with his own will. How once, you left, and never turned back could change the story of your life entirely. This movie completely justifies the fact that this life is all about the choices that we make. 

It was hard to accept and take it for a truth that something could go as terribly wrong with something as pure as the sky. You know, ending exactly where you started. This movie has so less, yet so much to offer to you as it progresses. And of course, perspective. One could see exactly how a man, after looking back at what he is losing, desperately tries to fight back. Just to be able to keep bits of it. Once when you hated every bit of it, now you are ready to be happy with even a speck of it. And no matter how hard you try, things just fall back to their place somehow.  

“This is the day we met. You were down by the surf. I could just make you out in the distance.

I remember being drawn to you even then. I thought, ''Wow, how odd. I'm drawn to someone's back. You were in that orange sweat shirt that I would come to know so well... and even hate, eventually. At the time I thought, ''How cool! An orange sweatshirt.''

Hi. 

I saw you sitting over here... By yourself, And I thought, ''Thank God. Someone normal who doesn't know how to interact at these things either. Yeah. I don't ever know what to say.

I'm Clementine. Can I borrow a piece of your chicken?

And then you just took it... Without waiting for an answer. It was so intimate, like we were already lovers. 

I'm Joel.

Hi, Joel. So, no jokes about my name.

You mean like--- Oh, my darling, oh, my darling…Oh, my darling Clementine -Huckleberry Hound, that sort of thing?

Yeah. Like that.

Oh, no jokes. No jokes. One of my favourite things when I was a kid was my Huckleberry Hound doll.

Oh. I think your name is magical.

This is it, Joel. It's gonna be gone soon. 

I know.

What do we do? 

Enjoy it.”

You’re simply gonna love that morning with the “thankyou” note and the attention turner doctor too. And as it progresses, make sure you don’t forget what just happened. And let me know how you feel when it ends.

~Caveman