Heather hasn’t seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clear your mind and meet us in Montauk, because we’re going to be discussing the 2004 classic mind-bender of a film starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, written by Charlie Kaufmann, and directed by Michael Gondry. Does the cerebral examination of love and relationships hold up 20 years later? And what connection do Napoleon Dynamite and The Holiday have with this film?

00:00 Intro

00:42 Preconceptions

05:00 Film Clip

06:45 Initial reactions (spoilers)

16:32 The look and feel of the film

19:34 Is it a horror film?

23:02 A very British orange

25:10 Recap

28:25 The questionable ethics of memory erasure

33:35 Insecurities and accusations

38:12 Lord of the Creeps

43:29 Lack of likeable characters

49:47 I am not a concept

52:00 On trauma, memory, and nature