Spotless Emotion

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2004)

Oddly enough for me, everything (and that's to say, the single critical column that I read about it) that I had read about Eternal Sunshine came to life when I watched it, gawking at times. It was Charlie Kaufman alright, witty, clever, full of twists, and above all, revolving around the Invention of the Day. However, it was more, a lot more. This time, unlike Malkovic or Adaptation, it wasn't what the dialogs were there to serve. Oh no. In Eternal Sunshine the whole erase-your-memories-to-get-over-your-ex thing is merely there to say stuff that matters, or at least, mattered to me, about how we fall in and out of love and what in the world we should do about it. And that's why I loved Eternal Sunshine so much. Because on top of all the intellectual challenges I expected to be left with, it also got me to thinking: it's my life out there on the big screen.