Came home last night. I bought a copy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/i>. I saw it 5 times in the theatre, so that gives you some idea of my response to it. I basically know the movie by heart. So I saw a copy of it at my video store on sale, bought it, and came home to watch.<\/p>\n
Curled up in my chair, I was feeling very odd, very … woozy … but not sleepy. And at the end of the movie, when the two of them are basically trying to re-enact their first meeting, on the beach in Montauk, their first conversation … and yet they’re commenting on their own behavior at the same time … They are re-living a memory together, a precious memory. Anyway, in the middle of their little re-enactment, a look of incredible sadness comes over Kate Winslet’s beautiful face, and she breaks out of the re-enactment, and says to him, “It’s almost over, Joel.” Meaning: they are drawing near to the end of the memory. They can’t hold onto it anymore. It moved by quickly … and now it will be gone … in a flash.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen the scene 5 times.<\/p>\n
It didn’t matter. I burst into mushy sloppy girlie tears. I literally *burst* out crying. Couldn’t watch the rest of the movie because of it. I then proceeded to stagger around my apartment, washing face, brushing teeth, tears rolling down my face in a non-stop flood.<\/p>\n
I have no idea what I was crying about. And I didn’t feel all that sad or anything. It was just a crack in the veneer, and out streamed tears. For only about 10 minutes, and then I went to bed. And fell asleep almost instantly.<\/p>\n
Must be the jet-lag. Coming back has been a bitch<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Came home last night. I bought a copy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I saw it 5 times in the theatre, so that gives you some idea of my response to it. I basically know the movie by … Continue reading