RE: Eternal Sunshine

Actually, I really liked the movie for many of the reasons Kate mentioned. I had actually forgotten that I was watching Jim Carrey until he made that funny face when trying to wake up. Also, I'm having trouble coming up with the rights words exactly, but I liked the feel/look of the film.

What I was trying to say was that the movie seemed to me like it had some sort of theme, but I couldn't find it. I wasn't trying to say the movie was not good because it didn't have a theme - I was just wondering if anyone else had some insight that I had missed. Kate, it wasn't so much that I thought the movie needed something as much as I was wondering if I missed the something.

I once had to write a paper on the uses of pink and green in Lord of the Flies. That's not the sort of thing I'm looking for. I'm just wondering if the director had an idea in the back of his head that he wanted to get across and maybe I missed it.

I loved Pulp Fiction as a very original exercise in creative storytelling. But I would have liked it better if I had walked away thinking that it had shown me something about life that I hadn't seen before. That's my only point/question.

editted to explain what I'm talking about.

Ah, to heck with it. Styling a link as hidden is too hard.

See. I think Pulp Fiction is ALL about a theme. The whole structure of the film is built around Jules and Vincent's choice whether to continue to be evil or to try to do good. Vincent decides to keep doing evil and ends up dead. Jules decides to be moral and lives. All the characters are presented with clear choices and what happens to them follows from whether they choose the righteous path or not. Watch the film again and you'll be amazed at how well explored the theme actually is.

Styling a link as hidden is too hard.

Doesn't it work if you put the font color inside the link's a href tag?

eta: okay, kinda hidden.

See. I think Pulp Fiction is ALL about a theme. The whole structure of the film is built around Jules and Vincent's choice whether to continue to be evil or to try to do good. Vincent decides to keep doing evil and ends up dead. Jules decides to be moral and lives. All the characters are presented with clear choices and what happens to them follows from whether they choose the righteous path or not. Watch the film again and you'll be amazed at how well explored the theme actually is.

Yes! I loves me some spicy Scrappy brains.

Watch the film again and you'll be amazed at how well explored the theme actually is.

I will, next time. Thanks.

Now I wonder what Plei was trying to pull.

What I was trying to say was that the movie seemed to me like it had some sort of theme, but I couldn't find it.

The theme is precisely stated in the final conversation between Clem and Joel in the hallway: even if you know at the start that a relationship is going to fall apart - and you always do, once you're an adult - it's still worth having the elationship. Memory is just the MacGuffin - the film is about accepting that relationships are always painful.

Caution: Guilty Joy Warning

Did anyone else see Anchorman this weekend? I was in dire need of a movie that would make me laugh until it hurt. I read a review that said "This is a great movie for the kind of people who think that a dog getting drop-kicked off a bridge is funny.

So, of course, I went. And I've got to say, I still heart Will Farrell.

Actually, I somewhat disagree with that quote, Lilty. I found that scene appalling and funny at the same time... but I think "appalling" won out.

Overall I still found the movie to be very funny, in the sense that my throat and stomach hurt from all the laughing....

Yeah, it wasn't the high point of the film- definitly a mix of shock and humor- I laughed, but it more at the aftermath than the actual event.

My stomach hurt after the rumble. Once Tim Robbins walked around that corner, I was done.