Dreaming in a Theater

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2004)

There are few films being made these days that really put into effect the codependence that lies between what we see and what we feel. While the theme of 'Eternal Sunshine' certainly resonated with me in my own existence, certainly with each other person's own as well in the theater, it captured much more than a nostalgically winter rediscovery of past and present loves. It takes you through a donen-esque landscape littered with episodes from here and there, then and now, but it doesn't tease you with a notion that some thematic sequences are dreams. Everything is real. Everything really happens. There are no cop-outs where we have to find Joel through his dreams to reveal what he thinks. I liked it because it didn't subject us to a dream, but allowed us to dream, ourselves-- and it is better to dream together than to dream alone.