I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, usually I don't like any movie that doesn't show scenes in chronological order, but I liked the way it worked in this movie. I also usually don't like sci-fi movies or movies with an unrealistic aspect to the plot, but it was alright in this movie. This movie being a romantic comedy was much darker than His Girl Friday which was a screwball comedy. This Film has a darker and more serious aspect which makes it a romantic comedy. In this movie it seemed darker than a screwball comedy because bad stuff could actually happen to the characters in this movie. In His Girl Friday it didn't seem like any one could get hurt, like when the lady jumped out the window and survived it wasn't a big deal, just kind of funny. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind you would think that if someone jumped out the window they would die, or it wouldn't be so funny. Also this movie is more serious because Joel starts to regret erasing Clementine and tries to stop his memories of her from being erased. In a screwball comedy like His Girl Friday there would never be a character with a serious problem or serious conflict.I liked in the movie how Howard who was the doctor who erased peoples memories chose not to erase his own memories of Mary, but he chose to just deal with it like normal. I thought that his relationship with Mary was pretty weird though. In both relationships whoever had there memories erased fell back in love with the person they had erased, but in the Mary Howard relationship Howard didn't have his memories erased and didn't fall back in love with Mary.
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I also enjoyed this movie. The darkness of the plot just seemed like it can happen, even though it is not possible. I also liked how Dr. Howard tried to deal with his emotions normally, while the others wanted the process of memory being erased to eradicate the horrible relationships. Nice post.
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