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Episode 67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Beyond the Screenplay

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The Paradox of the Movie

The movie leans into paradoxes on every level you know both in the character contradictions also in the structure where it opens at the end and then it brings us all the way back there. There's like a coda where it's like well what happens after this part then right which then brings us to that wonderful scene where they're listening to each other say terrible things about their relationship while they're thinking about to get together for what they think is the first time. It's an incredible paradox right there at the end of the film.

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