More people should be genre-bending romantic comedies with... well, anything, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind shows how to do it well. The romantic comedy genre, like many genres, has tropes that audiences are familiar with: (usually) heterosexual attraction, love at first sight, manic pixie dream girls, and desperate declarations of love before their partner in front of a large crowd of people. It's a worn-out genre, but Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, written by the ever-weird Charlie Kaufman, does it justice. The film plays with the romantic comedy elements and tropes. The “meet-cute” and the classic archetypes of the main characters are presented to the audience and soon dismantled as the audience figures out that the timeline of the film is nonlinear. Watch how FilmThought breaks down the brilliance of the film in this video: Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 11 November, 2020