Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

In the 2004 film review of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Roger Ebert brings up the main characters name, Clementine and Joel, in the first paragraph and briefly states what they are trying to do in the film. He focuses on the purpose of the film, which is for Clementine and Joel to erase each other from their memory, and refers to the film as an “example of Maze Cinema, that style in which the story coils back upon itself”. With that being said he goes on to talking about the scientific procedure that both Clementine and Joel go though but does not really describe them “ because it would not only be unfair to reveal the plot but probably impossible.” It would be impossible because of Maze Cinema style of the movie he mentioned earlier. Ebert also talks about the we-known director Michel Gondry and his past film “Human Nature”. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film that you have to pay attention to at all times or you will not fully comprehend it but Roger Ebert is right, “Despite jumping through the deliberately disorienting hoops of its story, “ "Eternal Sunshine" has an emotional center, and that's what makes it work.” Closing his review he describes the opposite characters of Clementine and Joel and what it is that makes their characters work. If you are someone who enjoys romance films then you just might like "Eternal Sunshine".