where the sun don't shine (eternally)

I love Michel Gondry, don't you?

I love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I watched it last night. I do own it so it's not like I haven't seen it a million times, but it's a fun movie to return to because it's so strange.

One thing I found out while watching it with commentary by Gondry and Kaufman this morning before work is that the movie has the sunshine dust quality of light in it because there is actually smoke all over the place. You can't really see the smoke, it just filters the light. So that's how it looks so real or like dirty without being actual video.

I don't love Jim Carrey, but I do love Kate Winslet, and it's fun to see her playing such a crazy girl. I'm glad that the crazy girl is 30, too, and still dying her hair weird colors and working at Barnes and Noble and making potato dolls. I'm glad Jim Carrey is kind of haggard and scruffy. I love the scene where they're eating dinner in the restaurant and not talking. That used to give me so much anxiety with long-term boyfriends but now I think, a little silence never killed anyone. I guess people have problems not because it kills but because it bores.

Also, I love Mark Ruffalo and Kirtsen Dunst and how Kirsten Dunst is in love with the doctor who erases the memories and also how low-tech and shoddy the whole opertation is. I love cassettes!

I guess they try again, too, which is nice, but it's also kind of sad. I like that it's not too hopeful, like, you know what's coming, but isn't it sweet that although they erased each other from their minds that they are drawn to each other again?

I think that's so nice, is that silly?