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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
He tried to erase her and ended up fighting to keep even the painful parts. Healing isn't forgetting. 💙🧡 #EternalSunshine
Who it's for
Eternal Sunshine takes the post-breakup fantasy of wiping someone from your mind and plays it out literally.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Michel Gondry's film, written by Charlie Kaufman, follows Joel Barish, who learns that his ex-girlfriend Clementine has had her memories of him erased by a firm called Lacuna and decides to undergo the same procedure. As the erasure runs while he sleeps, Joel relives their relationship in reverse, from its bitter end back to its happiest moments.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Sexual content and heavy drinking.
Age: R (drug content, language, sexual content)
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27
