Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Full Length Reaction
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Soulmates will find a way to find each other. I love that Shout out to your parents for signing you up for that film camp. I can only imagine that revisiting this movie as an adult it's such a different experience than when you were a kid. It's absolutely beautiful
Franklin
2024-08-26 16:05:57 +0000 UTCI'm sorry to hear that Elizabeth. I'm glad that you're at a point where the separation and moving towards your passions is happening. However my heart goes out to you for the struggle the divorce is bringing your way. Sending you love and good energy💜
Franklin
2024-08-26 16:03:29 +0000 UTCThanks Jessie this one was mind-bending but so so good
Franklin
2024-08-26 15:57:59 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing that. I'm right with you in that line of thinking. It's scary. I used to watch movies that had dystopian futures and think things like that could never happen. But with all the things we're seeing these days, you can tell that the Technologies will only get more sophisticated in the future. I think we should all hold on to how things used to be and engage with nature and the world how we're supposed to. I'm so happy I grew up at a time when going outside to play was one of the most fun things I could do as a kid. It's not all lost though. I believe we can still raise our young to value just living in the present and enjoying things away from technology. Gardening, going on walks, going to the Lakes, fishing etc etc
Franklin
2024-08-26 15:57:20 +0000 UTCThat first scene where they meet each other in the train (from Montauk) was them re-discovering each other after they both had the memory-erasing procedure. Their first actual meeting (and the start of their relationship) was that night they spent at the beach house that wasn't theirs. The movie presents everything in a non-linear manner as Joel is flicking through memory after memory during the procedure. At the end of the day, soulmates will find a way to find each other, regardless of the challenges they face. This movie is regarded as having one of the best screenplays of the century, and I am sure you can see why. A stroke of creative and emotional genius on so many levels. Not to mention fantastic performances across the board. When I was a kid, my first dream was to become a movie director. I was obsessed. So, my parents signed me up to one of the best film camps back in the summer of '05 or '06. We studied this as one of our big film projects. Needless to say, most of it went right over my head as a young 8 or 9 year old. Revisiting this now, I can confirm it is indeed a masterpiece on so many levels. This really touched me on a deep, visceral level.
Benjamin
2024-08-24 19:20:28 +0000 UTCIf you don't know what it feels like to wish you could erase someone, you're lucky. I'm going through a divorce and its killing me - I would give everything I have to not feel like this for 5 minutes and erase him from my memories.
Elizabeth
2024-08-24 14:27:42 +0000 UTCI never cared for romance movies but this is an all-time favorite. It was so great to revisit it with you! Happy you enjoyed it.
Jessie
2024-08-24 06:54:16 +0000 UTCSomething just came to me so frightening now that I’ve watched this 20 years after it was made, AI, chat GPS, deep, fake, and trans humanism envy destruction of reality into dystopia. It was your reflection of your childhood, beautiful dreams that when woken up you couldn’t return to That inspired this ability for me to connect my fear for my great grandson who if these things become a reality by the time he is 20 he may never know what a real flower smells like and there would be an addiction to run headlong into a dream state that would never show you The physical reality that our physical bodies could not convey to our minds because it would be too disconnected. Everything that is beautiful and everything that is hard and everything that we endure to grow to be better people will be no longer. Where does our humanity then? I’m so sorry but I had to get that out of my system. We’re moving too fast. Just because we can do things doesn’t mean we should do them grateful. I have a safe place to speak even if it’s not relatable and would be perceived as a dark thinking, great grandmother trying to hold onto the past when that’s not the case. I’m glad to get it off my heart, say it out loud as I continue to ponder what the last part of my life can do to be a glitch in the matrix. Thank you, Franklin. I did not realize how heavy this situation has been weighing on me and I’m so grateful you shared that childhood memory so that I could pinpoint, my anxiety over the future of our technology and where it may lead our humanity. Many blessings to the future children, and may your generation have the strength to remain human.
Laura Thate
2024-08-24 06:13:07 +0000 UTCOne of Jim Carrey better and less appreciated rolls.
Laura Thate
2024-08-24 03:54:27 +0000 UTC
