Eternal Sunshine

Wow! What a great movie. I've always liked Charlie Kaufman fare, but found his endings to be hugely disappointing. Finally, with Eternal Sunshine, he's figured out a way to end the film. For a minute there, it seemed like it ended and ended well. Then he starts up a whole new sequence, and I was like, "Uh, oh, here we go, another Adaptation unraveling"...but he pulled it together, and I really enjoyed the last two scenes -- the acknowledgement of future failure and despair (to me, also death), but the human impulse to go on living and loving. Simple, but true and sad and wonderful all at the same time.

I wonder if the script was this way, or whether they made the ending in editing. I could see it either way...