Ms. Dominico’s Year 12 VCE English Class

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Chapters:

1. Valentine’s Day (3:41)
2. Clementine (6:41)
3. Two Blue Ruins (2:54)

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Eloisa to Abelard
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Abelard and his pupil, Heloise by Edmund Leighton.

Published in 1717, Eloisa to Abelard is a poem by Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th-century story of Eloisa’s (age 19) (Heloise’s) illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard (age 51), perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris, and the brutal vengeance her family exacts when they castrate him, not realizing that the lovers had married.
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst
screenplay by Charlie Kaufman
directed by Michel Gondry

Here is an insightful film review from:

http://filmfreakcentral.net/screenreviews/eternalsunshine.htm

“…But it’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that completes Kaufman’s emergence into an emotional world with what is essentially an ode to one of my favourite ideas and phrases: the madness of love in a temporary world.

…. The film is told as a montage of Joel’s reflections of love at the moment of their erasure, and it’s every bit as melancholy and romantic as the conceit would imply.

… the picture is a cascade of thoughts that rejects traditional narratives while holding fast to recognizable strictures of storytelling. Joel is the hero, attempting to rescue his damsel from the dungeon of his mind and bad decisions.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind revolves around two quotes.
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 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Detailed linear chronology

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