Three Days
On the strange kindness of memory that fades
In Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a man walks into a clinic to have the memory of his ex-girlfriend erased. The film is over twenty years old now. Its central conceit—that we might choose what to forget—remains a fantasy. But it has aged into something darker than I think Kaufman intended…
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