fine whine

I just watched The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and I really, really liked it. One of these days I'm really going to make a list of the best films I watch every year, and this is a shoo-in for one of the top spots for 2004, I guarantee it. As a movie directed by a well-known and talented music video director, it certainly was worthy to be directed by a well-known and talented music video director. It feels like a music video (that said, the video culled from it by the Polyphonic Spree is brilliant in its own right) even while the score/soundtrack is near silent and almost absent.

"MTV-style editing" was for a long time a derogatory phrase. This is an MTV-style masterpiece and would serve well to begin the ultimate redemption of the phrase (as it is now on standby, I believe) and its practice.

I realize I'm gushing.

I just really, really liked this movie. I want to have written it. I want to have directed it. I want to have been on the sets, particularly the forced perspective ones. It was just brilliant.