It took me about five viewings to really understand everything at work in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... and it is WAY less wierd and complicated than Science of Sleep. Michel Gondry has made a masterpiece melange of romance, self-discovery, melancholy, and thought-provokingly ironic dialogue that drove me crazy and made me love it all at the same time.
The movie centers of Stephane, a young Frenchman living in South America and what happens to him upon moving back to Paris when his father dies. He ends up in a job he hates, finds a girl he loves, and spends most of the film reconciling his imagination with reality.
The art direction of this film was not only new and exciting, but brilliantly fit the word of Stephane's dreams. Gondry uses everyday, and relatively, cheap objects in stop motion animation to seamlessly mix with live action characters on the screen.
The writing is good, the characters are wonderfully acted, but it is the scenery, sets, and animation that are the true stars of this film.
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