Not Your Average Love Story: Film Techniques in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2009; Issue: 53 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1449-857X
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) is not your average love story. It has more in common with arthouse films like Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) and Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004) than it does with glossy and predictable Hollywood romantic comedies like What Happens in Vegas (Tom Vaughan, 2008) or Made of Honor (Paul Weiland, 2008). The innovative use of narrative, mise en sc ne, cinematography, editing and the soundtrack in Eternal Sunshine all serve to convey the tenderness, confusion, miscommunication, pain and hope that accompany romantic endeavours. They underscore the film's message that when you have loved and lost, it is better to remember, mourn and honour that loss than to remain in ignorance of pain and the happiness you once had.
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