Review of ‘Forget About Me!’

Resnais scored the goal before anyone else, because I love you I love you It was nothing more (or less) than a shattered love story that memory tried to reconstruct when it was too late, too late. He did it before Charlie Kaufman, who in Forget about me! teases out the waterline of his earlier screenplays by showing that what had started out as a clever, brilliant set of Russian nesting dolls (How to be John Malkovich) is ending the desperate search that an author undertakes in the bottomless pit of his feelings. Resnais was much more cerebral in portraying the suicidal anguish of a romantic who lost his beloved in the limbo of time. Kaufman (and Gondry, much more inspired than in human-nature) knows how to be more melancholic by recounting, sadly and disorderly, the sentimental relationship between two unfortunates who erase everything they have experienced in their minds to stop recreating it in their hearts.

That is what this magnificent film is about: love as a recreation of memory. From the panic that enters us when remembering that we can no longer recompose that letter that we tore into a thousand pieces because we simply do not remember it, we are only able to imagine it. Gondry lives up to the sophistication of Kaufman’s proposal, offering us a parallel universe of saturated colors and sinister poetry with surrealist rhymes. There is no room here for the extravagant caricature of human-nature: In fact, at times it seems as if Roman Polanski has decided to adapt a romantic comedy written by Philip K. Dick. The intentions of this masterful film do not want to disorient the viewer, or at least they do not want to disorient him more than the protagonist himself, a typically Kaufmanian freak played by Jim Carrey with the wet look of someone who has lost what is irretrievable. what you intend Forget about me! It is transmitting the chaos of heartbreak, making us feel like two lovers looking for each other on a cold night with a flashlight that does not illuminate, it is only scary. And it really does: this is the darkest romantic comedy ever filmed.

For irredentist melancholics and other companions of lack of love.

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DATA SHEET

Address: michel gondry Distribution: Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Jim Carrey Original title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Nationality: USA Year: 2004 Release date: 09-23-2004 Gender: Comedy Screenplay: Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, Ziad Doueiri, Charlie Kaufman Duration: 108 minutes

Synopsis: Joel (Jim Carrey) discovers one day to his surprise that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had the memories of their turbulent relationship erased. Desperate, he hires the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwaik (Tom Wilkinson), to erase his memories of Clementine as well. But as her memories of her disappear he falls in love with her again. From the depths of his mind, Joel tries to escape from the process. As the doctor and his team (Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood) chase him through the maze of his mind, Joel can’t get his girl out of his head.