"Meet me in Montauk"
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie directed by Michel Gondry, written by Charlie Kaufman. This movie is, in my opinion, was well written and not structured like movies normally produced. When watching this movie it is the kind of movie that requires you to pay attention to small details and actually think and remember what happen in past scenes.
The first thing that may grab others attention, as it did mine, is how the movie first starts out. It starts with a scene where the protagonist, Joel Barish, wakes up and narrates the setting of the day. He states how the time period is Valentine's day of 2004 and how instead of going to work he has the urge to go to Montauk. He meets a woman on the train and they begin talking although he is a bit puzzled, much as I was being the viewer of a movie that begins so oddly.
A literary technique that is greatly appreciated in this movie is the narration in the beginning. It is important because if you watch the movie on mute it would be like watching the movie without the narration, which would make the opening scene even more confusing then it already is.
It then jumps to the middle of the story where he speaks of how the girl does not remember who he is when she sees him. He then sees how she has erased him from her mind and he decides to erase her as well.
It is hard to tell who the villain, antagonist, in the story is. It may be the doctor who erases the minds or it could be the two lovers who are also the victims. Either way this movie is unique in the sense that It is structured in the following order: end, middle, beginning. This structure worked well for the movie because I believe that as your watching it it makes you think "wait, why did that happen?" and it makes you WANT to continue to watch, just to answer the question in your head. The structure works like a "grabber" in a way which is creative.
Another unique characteristic would be the plot and the characters. In stories and movies there are 
characters who are usually put into a situation (the plot) and it is the plot that will end the story. In this movie however, it seems that the characters are the plot. If you take away the character there would be no plot. It is the characters that end the story not the situation. The characters decided to continue on although the story ends in a way that will keep you wondering. Even after the movie is over and the credits are rolling the story leaves you with room to decide for yourself what could happen, will the characters decide the future or will fate?
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