Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

As far as science fiction goes, the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Michael Gondry is a model movie for the genre. Having just watched it for the first time, the concept itself is innovative, refreshing, and interesting. The main protagonist is Joel Barish who is played by Jim Carrey and is our narrative point of view. He says his thoughts out loud, and in doing so tells the viewer key points in the story. Joel is a quiet and mildly reserved man who meets another major character,…

well to the actual plot but the main focus of the movie is around the changes that Andy goes through and how he transforms from a simpleton that is bullied in prison to someone who turns all tables around in his favor in the end. b. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind…

worldly situations that you analyze. (#4 on the prospectus) From a brief overview, my data sets consists of lyrics from two songs (one song for Frank Ocean, one song for Michael Jackson), a short clip from the critically-acclaimed movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as well as select number of scholarly articles. The songs are centered around my primary source data sets and the JSTOR and various of other internet…

Introduction From the earliest day, People have experienced the films since the film technology was not well-developed, from a still image showing on screen or five to ten seconds moving images to long stories as in these days. As the technology have been developed, The narrative of the stories is being developed as well. There are more details and conventions, not only playing images one by one without any description. The conventions of the story refer to a genre. Genre benefits all…

Cinematic Representations of Cognition in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Howard and Joel walk into the lab. The camera pans left in a POV shot, like from the perspective of a horrified spectator, from a screaming woman to Stan performing the memory operation. The background is plastered by a large film of the woman’s memories projected onto the wall. Howard speaks of the procedure in the background. With dynamic camera movements, attentive editing, unique approaches to mise-en-scene,…

In Hollywood, stars are not only known for acquiring plentiful identities, but also several distinctive types of identities, which are determined by the diverse traits of their characters, along with the various characters that they depict (Shingler, 121). This has made it fundamentally impossible to distinguish between the star, the character, the private personality and the public persona of the actor, especially since these distinct and overlapping identities are both exposed and concealed at…

the memory of the event is consolidated in the mind and consequently in the genetic material of the subject, and when the event is invoked, this triggers a series of behavioral patterns that often lead to suicides, murders, hate crimes, and other abnormal events that greatly reduce the abilities of the person to operate in a normal way. Despite the major excitement by well known scientific groups to explore treatment of this ‘disease’ of the mind there is a sinister reminder between the interest…