Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Film and Discussion

Please join us for the next event in our film series.

We'll be watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2003), directed by Michel Gondry, starring Jim Carrey, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood and Mark Ruffalo. This film is rated R for language, some drug and sexual content, and runs 108 minutes.

Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) meet in a vacation spot, fall in love, fall out of love, break up and decide to forget each other. Clementine gets Joel out of her life by employing the services of Lacuna Inc., a company that promises to erase memories of any relationship the client desires to forget. Joel finds out about this and decides to do the same, but regrets the decision in the middle of the night-long process and attempts to fight the erasure.

Eternal Sunshine highlights the importance of memories and history in shaping our identities and relationships. What does the film have to teach us about our relationship with God and our identity as God's people? A related issue we will explore concerns the nature of love relationships in

real life.

Connie Lau, 5th year Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, will lead the discussion.

Image from http://movieweb.com/movies/film.php?693.