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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004)
Directed by Michel Gondry, written by Charlie Kaufman (based on a story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth)
In Adaptation, Kaufman created protagonists who torture and berate
themselves, but never get out of themselves — not even when, as in Malkovich,
they literally get into someone else’s head. Even this awakens no shred
of concern for any other human being, but becomes merely a new forum in which
to seek self-gratification, a goal Kaufman’s characters inevitably pursue
to the most grotesque and disturbing extremes. Yet there’s a difference this time. In this film Kaufman’s characters
finally lift their heads out of the fog and dare to hope — to move beyond
narcissism and solipsism and actually try to make contact with one another.
It’s not a film that everyone will care to see, but I think it’s
ultimately humanistic and hopeful rather than nihilistic and misanthropic,
and that’s something. Read the full
review by Steven D. Greydanus of Decent Films Additional
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