And THERE IT IS! At 00:24:45, there is the card telling Joel that Clementine has had her memory of Joel wiped. But when he finds her at Barnes and Chernobyl, she has no memory of him. The next day, Joel goes looking for Clementine to give her a Valentine’s Day gift. (Taylor, remember, the timeline is all kinds of upside down chief!) Joel takes a drug of some sort, (anxiety meds?) And then he passes out. We then see Patrick, and Stan (played by Mark Ruffalo), come into Joel’s apartment with a lot of equipment. AH! I think I know what’s happening, I think this is after. And enter the 80’s looking title screen!Ġ0:22:44 – WHAT?!? Oh man, I apparently don’t remember this movie well at all! Patrick is Clementine’s boyfriend? And. And I’ll be honest, I don’t remember this at all. (Which cracked me up, btw.) The next morning, Clementine asks if she can crash at his house, and while she is getting her toothbrush, Patrick (played by Elijah Wood) asks if he can help Joel. And Joel tells her that that one is Osidious the emphatic, its the one there with a swoop and a cross. They watch the stars and Clementine asks Joel which ones he knows. It utterly spins what happens later on into a totally new light.Ġ0:18:02 – Clementine talks Joel into having an ice picnic. Which, I had completely forgotten from the first time I watched the film. And we know from schizoid way in which Clementine turned every compliment from Joel into an insult she isn’t fairly sane. And she is completely and totally insane! We know that Joel attaches himself to any female that looks his way and is kind. Glad to know I’m not going insane yet anyway.Ġ0:10:45 – Joel and Clementine “meet” at the diner, and on the train platform… then officially on the train. Feel free to watch this video if you’d like to know more about the edit. A Romeo, like in Romeo and Juliet, moving from Rosaline quickly, to Juliet. Naomi was in the original edit of the film, but got redacted because of how it would make the audience feel about Joel. So, I searched the Google for Naomi, and now I know why. Why? Because I couldn’t remember any other woman in Eternal Sunshine than Clementine. (Already stressed out about this crazy stupid idea.)Ġ0:03:58 – “I should get back together with Naomi.” this quote, like completely and totally derailed me. But I’ll just document here my thoughts as I watch, and we’ll proceed with the timeline reconstruction later. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind WalkthroughĠ0:00:04 * – Immediately, I remember that this movie is told like 100% out of order and jumbled. And yet, we have caution warnings about the hotness of the beverages on the sides of coffee cups. 100% Spoiler material all the way through. But oh how I adored this movie when it first came out! Anyway, let’s try this – ok?īut yes. But if I’m more than a little surprised at where this thing is going? It’s because it’s because I have children older than this movie. I was pretty over the moon about the concept. I know I saw it in the theaters when it first came out. I will say this, it’s been almost 15 years since I saw the movie last. But I’ll continue to post my thoughts, and my memories about the movie as I slowly make my way through. If it takes a week, or two, to get through it? So be it. And write what I would write in my notes here, instead of in my notepad. My thought? Basically to do a minute by minute review of the movie. So I figured, heck, why not start the review even though I want to watch the movie again and I haven’t yet. It is always the second or third movie on my list, and I’m never getting around to it. Why not try it and see what happens? Basically, I want to do a review on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and I don’t seem to have time to watch, to write, to get it done. I’ll admit, I know in advance, this is one of those times. Every now and again I try something stupid.
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