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Episode 67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Beyond the Screenplay

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The Paradox of Character

"I'm obsessed with this Charlie Kaufman speech that he gave in 2011," says the actor. "He talks a lot about essentially contradictions or I'm going to use the word paradox because I want to use that word a lot moving forward from here but essentially contradiction or paradox in character" The entire plot of 'Midpoint' is predicated on Joel makes a decision then Joel on makes a decision that's the whole thing. He decides to erase Clementine then he decides he doesn't want to erased Clementine and so it goes.

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