The two talk about the importance of character work, and the relationship Carrey and Winslet had to build. Gondry is also featured in a conversation between the director and Jim Carrey. Luckily Kaufman quickly catches Gondry for the most part and puts him back on track, asking questions about the director’s decisions and helping steer the conversation to something more interesting. He also has a bad habit of narrating the action on screen from time to time.
However, Gondry’s thick French accent makes it difficult at times to fully understand what he’s saying. Both writer and director talk about ideas they had behind the scenes, and get a little bit into the execution of those ideas.
The film itself has a commentary track with writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry, which is a bit of a mixed blessing. The release sports a small amount of extras, just enough to whet your appetite and leave you wanting more.
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Hopefully this release on DVD will help make the movie more accessible to those who missed the movie or its ideals in the theater. As I said before, I wasn’t the biggest fan of this film when I saw it in theaters, and I think getting to see the movie a second time really helped me get what I missed before. There’s a kind of emotional comfort in both of those thoughts, and despite watching a tragic story of a love being erased, the film makes you feel a bit better about love, and relationships in general. It’s a powerful emotional message that is then tied in with the concept that, if you are meant to be together, nothing you do is going to stop that. It shows us how a person who was so angry with his lover that he decided to erase her can remember how much he loved that person, and how, deep down inside, he never wants to let her completely go. See, what the film reminds us of, is that period in a relationship where being in love has nothing wrong with it, where everything is fresh and new, before familiarity sets in. Every member of the cast, including bit performers Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson are dead on in their parts, helping make connections that are so essential to this type of film. Mark Ruffalo’s Stan is almost the opposite end of the spectrum from the romantic lead he played in this year’s 13 Going on 30, and even Kirsten Dunst is forced to stretch her acting muscles as Mary, a receptionist for Lacuna Inc. In interviews Winslet pointed out that both of them play against type in this film - she plays a Jim Carrey type character, and he plays a very Winslet type dramatic character, but that extends beyond the two leads.
Carrey truly shows how far his acting abilities reach in this film though, playing a total Un-Carrey type part. Kate Winslet is no stranger to these kind of pieces, but the casting of Jim Carrey seems extremely out of place at first glance, despite his successful stretch into more serious parts with The Majestic and The Truman Show. Like Kaufman’s other films, Eternal Sunshine is a fairly strong character piece, putting great pressure on the actors to convey the emotions required to move the piece along. With Kaufman’s creative ideas, and Gondry’s impressive visual direction, Eternal Sunshine is not just a unique and brilliant idea, but one that’s pulled off with solid execution within some pretty surreal imagery. That’s a pretty heady concept for a movie, and it’s really no surprise it comes from the mind of Charlie Kaufman ( Being John Malkovich) and Michel Gondry, who previously teamed with Kaufman on Human Nature. As technicians in the real world work on the memory deletion process, Joel and Clementine attempt to run and hide, hoping to keep some part of their former relationship safe in Joel’s mind. This isn’t helped by the memories themselves being erased, and soon Joel starts to realize just what he’s losing by giving up these memories. It’s a dream world, where everything is vague and, as memories are apt to do, pieces disappear and change without any notice. Joel’s memories make up the bulk of the film, as we watch Joel and Clementine’s relationship in reverse, from breakup to first meeting.
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