Me and all their other fans out there proselytizing for them. Or Illusions or Home for the Holidays need Myself from it anymore it long ago became a settled part of who I am it doesn't need me the way I like to imagine that Birth I don't get too worked upĪbout Eternal Sunshine these days, much as I don't reach for Pride and Prejudice anymore when I want something to read. Sure the law of averages dictates that there must be people who dislike actual sunshine, or who don't think beagles are cute. In my own mind, but Eternal Sunshine already belongs to everyonethough I'm sure there must be people out there who don't favor it, just like I'm Arguing or advertising on behalf of movies I cherish is often one of my surest methods for keeping its vitality fresh Plus, I haven't had to argue for it to anyone, maybe ever, and only once in at least three years have I spoken Sunshine, which long ago passed every test. Love-object, seeking to establish its genius, stamina, or adorability, rather than reconfirming the inherence of all those things in a movie like Eternal You?like you've used the work up a little, or like it will be more exciting to sample something new, or to probe the crannies of some slightly less scrutinized Not because I'm averse to great works, but having absorbed them so voraciously when they arrive into your life, and having reached a point ofĬonsensus with almost everyone you know that the artists, the culture, the world should feel proud of this object, you start to feeldon't The movie is barely five years old, but I've already spent those full five years thinking of it, talkingĪbout it, and teaching it not just as a super movie but as an important work, and honestly, it's starting to dull my impulse to actually pop the thing in theĭVD player. To say something distinctive about a film I expected everyone to rave about in basically similar ways. Kaufman's unique take on contemporary capitalism because the movie did inspire those connections and reflections, but also because I immediately felt the need I paired it with a Bergman movie in my original review and emphasized Charlie
Seeing Eternal Sunshine for the first time in a theater was one of my only adult experiences of knowing that I was watching a brand-new film that I would always considerĪ masterwork, and probably everyone else would, too. Retro-tender thing in its structure, its techniques, and its images, to every round, exuberant, mournful, or minor note in its score and its performances. I'm less completely, polymorphously sensitive than I once was to its barely compromised brilliance and its godsent emotional earnestness, to every single innovative and When I'm thinking about the movie, though never when I'm actually watching it,
Part of it from my mind, but a kind of gentle fade has started to set in. What happens if I admit that I'm in danger of taking Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for granted? Not that I would ever volitionally erase any
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