I found this thorough review and technical critique of Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind which aids very well in summarizing most of the characteristics I also found in the movie:
Dorian's critique
Here's another article that has a totally different feeling about the movie:
Snarkmarket
I felt this particular review really dove in quickly looking for a director to produce something even more compelling with a different actor. I loved the film and it's too bad this particular person couldn't enjoy it as well as I did.
This next read feels a little more unbiased than the previous two and one quote already stands out from the article as it applies to our project,
"By the opening credits, it’s apparent that this movie is investigating something deeper than a simple love story, but the viewer has no clue what, and still isn’t sure by the end of the film."RF Critique
*edit: sorry I didn't realize this particular article was Christian biased.
Dennis C. Schweitzer's thesis from The College of Fine Arts of Ohio University on TON & TRAUM: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE FILM' touches on how sound effects help create the amazing way of not knowing if you are viewing the character's reality or memory.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is quite remarkable for there is literally no way to distinguish between Jim Carrey's real life and his dreams on neither the sonic nor the visual level. What the audience sees on the screen is mostly the perspective of Jim Carrey's character as he is in his mind, which makes the film's reality the product of Carrey's memory. In other words, the audience perceives the film in the way Carrey's character saw and heard what we see now, which explains the film's particular look and sound. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind might thus be the truest form of depicting a character's life hence it depicts the world of its protagonist in the way he himself perceives it.PDF of thesis
Yet another interesting read I found linked off the official site of a USAToday interview with Charlie Kauffman:Read it!
Found this guy's typographic voice book of the movie on youtube: Video
Here's a students project re-doing the opening credits: Video
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