The 1-10 happiness thread made me want to talk about Eternal Sunshine once I got started. Just seen it last week for the first time myself so late to the party. Comment from other thread
"yeah, that movie, better than any other ever, hits you like that. The good and bad of the relationship. Not even remembering why it got so screwed up and also remebering the weird child-like fun you guys had together. But in the end it's uplifting knowing you had those memories and they're so cherished. Just wish you could start over again though, that parts sad
Damn that's a great movie. My next buy on dvd"
What also hit very home was that last scene on the beach. Where Jim Carrey's gonna leave and she asks him to just stay this time. She asks if he could at least say goodbye. My similar story about my ex was through our whole relationship we knew I would eventually move from next door. I moved in, fell in love, and moved out within 7 months. Didnt really know each other the first month. She made a point to meet me first. Then I wasnt sure what she thought but she kept coming back every week or two to say Hi. So eventually we exchanged IM's and then road the same bus, etc, etc.
Have those akward but memorable scenes like her throwing rocks at my window over winter break at like midnight, us standing in the snow close while I try to block the wind, Her watching me play Shenmue 2 on New Year's Eve and meeting my friends, talking to 5am in the morning all winter break, hanging out till 3am "watching movies" on my b-day.. This all in the month we became close. Then over the 6 months I couldnt name enough other moments. We were still crazy about each other the last day I moved. Made it a note to say "let's enjoy this" the last week and last day which hit me hard in the movie. Hung out the entire day running around an empty house, having her try to wrestle with me in my front lawn, finding secluded areas to make out in my empty house, carrying each other on the moving roller. Never stopping to catch our breath the whole day. It ended though when we seen dark come and the movers were getting the last heavy things. She asked if I wanted one more run through of the house and I said no. I told her to "come here" and we sat on my porch's swing which oddly we never sat on once. We just layed together choked up crying, as we watched the mover's loading the last stuff, while we whispered stuff to each other and held each other until they were done and I had to leave.
And that's the last memory I have of the way things were. It got ugly and different after I moved and I don't even know how. There's no contact now. But the movie did make me happy to know I'm able to hold on to these memories. Oh, and Jim Carrey's easily one of my favorite actors ever. He's amazing. He plays comedy, quirky, real, dramatic, anything. Never seen such control in an actor to pick and choose just exactly what he wants to hit. I put him right up there at the top with the best actors in the business today. Anyway, got the words out I was going for.. Hand the thread over now
"yeah, that movie, better than any other ever, hits you like that. The good and bad of the relationship. Not even remembering why it got so screwed up and also remebering the weird child-like fun you guys had together. But in the end it's uplifting knowing you had those memories and they're so cherished. Just wish you could start over again though, that parts sad
Damn that's a great movie. My next buy on dvd"What also hit very home was that last scene on the beach. Where Jim Carrey's gonna leave and she asks him to just stay this time. She asks if he could at least say goodbye. My similar story about my ex was through our whole relationship we knew I would eventually move from next door. I moved in, fell in love, and moved out within 7 months. Didnt really know each other the first month. She made a point to meet me first. Then I wasnt sure what she thought but she kept coming back every week or two to say Hi. So eventually we exchanged IM's and then road the same bus, etc, etc.
Have those akward but memorable scenes like her throwing rocks at my window over winter break at like midnight, us standing in the snow close while I try to block the wind, Her watching me play Shenmue 2 on New Year's Eve and meeting my friends, talking to 5am in the morning all winter break, hanging out till 3am "watching movies" on my b-day.. This all in the month we became close. Then over the 6 months I couldnt name enough other moments. We were still crazy about each other the last day I moved. Made it a note to say "let's enjoy this" the last week and last day which hit me hard in the movie. Hung out the entire day running around an empty house, having her try to wrestle with me in my front lawn, finding secluded areas to make out in my empty house, carrying each other on the moving roller. Never stopping to catch our breath the whole day. It ended though when we seen dark come and the movers were getting the last heavy things. She asked if I wanted one more run through of the house and I said no. I told her to "come here" and we sat on my porch's swing which oddly we never sat on once. We just layed together choked up crying, as we watched the mover's loading the last stuff, while we whispered stuff to each other and held each other until they were done and I had to leave.
And that's the last memory I have of the way things were. It got ugly and different after I moved and I don't even know how. There's no contact now. But the movie did make me happy to know I'm able to hold on to these memories. Oh, and Jim Carrey's easily one of my favorite actors ever. He's amazing. He plays comedy, quirky, real, dramatic, anything. Never seen such control in an actor to pick and choose just exactly what he wants to hit. I put him right up there at the top with the best actors in the business today. Anyway, got the words out I was going for.. Hand the thread over now