effect than music are essential in bringing the audience into the world of the film and suspending their belief.
4. Gondry’sEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
One of postmodern film, made by Michael Gondry, in 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This filmoffers a postmodern view of memory,
resists earlier postmodern tendencies. The actors that supporting the theme of the movie, the changing of the plot and setting quickly, confusion between space and
time, and so many surrealist things came up in the scenes, will be analyzed using movie analysis theory.
This film starts with Joel Jim Carrey in a station, waiting for a train. From the very beginning, the audience will argue that this is the starting point of
the story. The story goes as it tells about Joel meets Clementine Kate Winslet at the train. This is the turning point of Joel’s live, when this attractive yet weird girl
tries to approach Joel. They soon become a lover, have a great moment together. But distraction comes in the middle of the plot; a younger boy came to
Clementine’s apartment as her lover. He treats Clementine exactly like Joel did to her. This jumble plot confused the audience and at first, the audience also can see
the confusion in Joel’s. Mixed between his happiness and his sadness, the plot seems moving rapidly.
The scene goes into Lacuna Inc., a place where a machine operated by the employee can delete the memories of a person, especially about the one they used
to love. Joel tries to erase the memories about Clementine, and in the process of
‘erasing’, the memories itself came up out of Joel’s control. Here also explained that actually Clementine already deleted her memories about Joel before.
The plot of this film can be confusing for the audience. There will be deeper analysis in some details of the story. It is possible for the audience to
misunderstand which one is the memory and what is actually happening outside of Joel’s head: The whole notion of reality is lost and the audience can see a decline
in a meta-narrative.By the end of the movie, the audience discover that what they originally thought was the beginning of the story actually turns out to be near the
end. Clementine and Joel are meeting, as though for the first time, because they have both had their memories of each other erased.
This small touch of science fiction is a device that illuminates a number of things: 1 just how bad their relationship had gotten; 2 how much they both
have lost by losing their memories of each other; 3 how much they are spontaneously drawn to each other, empathize, and get along together naturally;
4 what they are going to have to deal with if the new relationship is not going to go the way of the old one; and, last but not least, 5 how a medical procedure like
this could be misused by the people engaged in it. Nominated as Best Screenplay – Motion Picture in Golden Globe 2005,
this film also achieved two Oscar Award as Best Writing, Original Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actress in Leading Role. Moreover, this film also accepts
so many good reviews from audiences, as taken from ‘Internet Movie Database’ imdb.com. Matthews in imdb.com, 2004:1 states that this filmis ‘A
masterpiece? Probably.Ingenious? Absolutely.Unforgettable? I’ll see you at the 10
th
-year anniversary.’
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