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Michel Gondry’s cult film starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey was released almost twenty years ago, but it still remains one of the favorites of audiences around the world. What did the director manage to hook the audience so much and why does the story of a guy and a girl who want to forget each other, every time makes our heart clutch with anxiety and pity?
Joel and Clementine were once happy and in love with each other, but over time the affection turned into mutual irritation and constant quarrels. Wanting to forget Joel forever, Clementine agreed to an unusual scientific experiment – the erasure of memories. The young man did the same. Except that loving hearts are still drawn to each other, and mutual feeling can not be overcome even by science.
In our material we have collected novels from different years, which in plot and atmosphere resemble the famous tape. We are sure that these books will help you think about how multifaceted and unpredictable the human brain is, and also believe that true love still exists and it is impossible to forget it.
“What single word would you use to describe the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? I think “daydreaming” would be perfect. That’s exactly what the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s sad and lyrical poem “The Raven” does. He dreams of lost love. He is melancholically immersed in the past, holding out hope of ridding his soul of the pain of loss. But like Jim Carrey’s hero, who suddenly finds and then loses his beloved, he does not realize that love lives deep in his subconscious and it is impossible to get rid of it. The word “never” is repeated as a refrain in the poem and it perfectly describes the relationship between the heroes of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, because their attraction to each other will never disappear.
Magus. John Fowles.
Once Nicholas was a ruthless heartbreaker, out of idle curiosity, he easily played with the feelings of girls in love, did not avoid manipulation, deception and meanness, but now he himself has become a victim of a psychological experiment. By chance, the protagonist of the novel “The Magician” was on an island where he became a party to bizarre, and sometimes downright frightening experiments on human personality. Nicholas will be tested by passion, obsession, power and loneliness. But are these really scientific tests? Or is the mysterious host of the island simply taunting his guest aimlessly?
Flowers for Algernon. Daniel Keyes.
Charlie Gordon in Flowers for Algernon didn’t dream of forgetting a former love; he didn’t know much about love at all. His mental handicap made him an unwitting outcast, an eternal fool in the eyes of those around him. But one day his teacher from the special school Alice Kinnian helped him become a party to the experiment, in which he was to become a genius. But the discovery of his mind turned out to be a tragedy for Charlie. The ability to think revealed to him the imperfection of a world that previously seemed simple and harmless, and with it the pain of unhappy love.
The novel, which once grew out of a short novel, has long since entered the golden fund of world literature. The sad story of Charlie Gordon and the mouse Algernon, forced to undergo the same seemingly useful, but completely ruthless experiment, has won the hearts of more than one generation of readers. Many of the things Keyes puts at the heart of the story remain clear at all times: total loneliness, unrequited feeling and fear of a future that very often brings only disappointment and loss.
The Invisible Life of Addy Larue. Victoria Schwab.
Joel willingly wanted to erase Clementine from his memory, but fans of the wayward Frenchwoman in The Invisible Life of Addie Larue simply have no choice. Once upon a time, to avoid an unwanted marriage and tie her fate to art, Addie turned for help to the devil himself. The devil made her dream come true and even gave her eternal life on one condition: no one can remember her and she will exist in eternal oblivion. And so Addie has been traveling the world for centuries, remaining unrecognized, free and at the same time completely alone. But what if one day there is someone who can remember her face?
Entirely and completely. Camille Jeangelis
Have you ever had to say to someone you like, “I’m going to eat you up”? For Maren, the heroine of Camilla Giangelis’ novel Whole and Whole, this desire is no metaphor: from a young age she wanted to eat everyone she liked. Thus, one day her mother discovered her daughter’s eardrum in the mouth of a good acquaintance…
Another true love. Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Is it possible to completely erase a true feeling from your memory and forget your significant other forever? This is the question the heroes of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” were asking, looking for the answer and Emma from the novel “Another True Love”. Almost immediately after the wedding a young woman became a widow – her husband Jess tragically died. It seemed that Emma could not open her heart to anyone else, but fate had its own plans for the young woman.
