Coffee with Kimmy: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"By morning, you'll be gone."

I'm not really good at doing this and I'm not gonna pretend that I'm good at giving reviews on movies but fuck it if I won't make a blog about this one.

I just finished watching a movie entitled Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Honestly, I'm feeling a lot of things right now. Sadness, love, loneliness, hate and a whole lot more. 

Different and honest. For me, these are the words that perfectly describes this movie. It's different in the sense that it's not your typical girl-meets-boy-they-live-happily-ever-after kind of movie. It shows what happens in real life. That's why I also think that it's a very honest movie. Well, the story is fictional, yeah, but the message that it was trying to relay is as real as you will ever get. 

Woah. Really. I'm still trying to process everything until now. Maybe..it's just that I can relate to the heroine in so many ways. To give you an idea what the hell I am talking about, here's a brief backgrounder about the heroine in this movie, Clementine Kruczynski.

"Living… in a great and cheap apartment in New York City for the past four years. She likes to sit outside on the porch with the crickets and drink her gin and tonics.

Profession… bookstore clerk. It’s not hard to spot Clementine when you walk into the store – she’s the one with orange hair with blue streaks. But wait a day and it might be colored something else.

Interests… drinking, traveling, light crime, and whatever the hell else she feels like doing. Clementine is a free spirit who impulsively does whatever appeals to her at the moment. It can be an irresponsible lifestyle, but it makes her feel alive. Beyond her predilection for alcohol, Clem also cares about the simple things in life like good music and books, and taking trips to lie on her back on a frozen river.

Relationship Status… single. Clem is frustrated with the dating scene. As she puts it, “Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a [screwed] up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind." The memories of her past relationships were so painful that she went to extreme measures to get them out of her mind. 

Challenge… falling in love again. Clementine’s last relationship was with a quiet man by the name of Joel. It was long, tumultuous, all-consuming, and ended in such tremendous emotional pain that the pair both paid Dr. Mierzwiak to have their memories erased. When the two meet each other again, neither remembers that they’ve already dated, leaving them free – if that’s the right word – to recreate the relationship they were once so desperate to forget. 

Personality… intelligent, independent, assertive, and fun-loving. Clementine is smart enough to always question what people tell her to do – a trait that, over a lifetime, has caused her to become something of an outsider. While her exterior is carefree and fun-loving, it can be just a cover for a deep core of neuroticism and self-doubt. But if you had parts of your brain wiped out, you’d probably be a little neurotic too."

- https://www.charactour.com/hub/characters/view/Clementine-Kruczynski.Eternal-Sunshine-of-the-Spotless-Mind

My favorite quotation from her is this:

"Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a screwed up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind."

So right now, aside from Tatum O'shea of Stylo Fantome's Degradation series, I also got Clementine. Both women perfectly describes me as a person.

I really wish I can share more about this topic tonight but I'm really sleepy now. Let's talk again over coffee some time next week ayt?

I love you guys.

XoXo,

Clementine