Forget Me Not!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Forget Me Not! |
| Original title | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michel Gondry |
| script | Charlie Kaufman |
| production |
Anthony Bregman Steve Golin |
| music | Jon Brion |
| camera | Ellen Kuras |
| cut | Valdís Óskarsdóttir |
| occupation | |
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Forget Me Not! (Original title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ) is a romantic drama directed by Michel Gondry from 2004 with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in the lead roles . The film opened in German cinemas on May 20, 2004.
action
Framework story (1)
On the morning of Valentine's Day 2004, Joel Barish wakes up dazed in his bed. He gets up and goes to work. Waiting on the platform, he suddenly changes his mind and takes the train to Montauk am Meer. On the beach he sees a young woman in an orange sweatshirt; he has the desire to get to know her, but also inhibitions. These also predominate for him at the second meeting in a café and the third on the return journey on the train. Now she - Clementine - takes the initiative and opens the conversation; despite all the contradictions, they come closer. He goes with her, where - playfully, but not entirely irresponsible - even the word marriage is mentioned. He leaves, calls back from home immediately, they arrange to meet for the next evening and spend a romantic night on a frozen river. Back in front of Clementine's apartment, she would rather go with him and just say goodbye to get her toothbrush . While Joel is waiting in the car, an unknown young man appears who asks him, utterly amazed: Can I help you? With this question, the background of which neither Joel nor the viewer can understand, the framework story breaks off. The cut is made clear by a jump in time: accompanied by the film opening credits, one sees Joel crying and apparently completely desperate in the car through the night.
Internal act
The viewer now learns in a comprehensive flashback, which also makes up the main part of the film, that Joel and Clementine were a couple for about two years. In one of the increasingly worsening crisis situations, it was not by chance Clementine (she is - in contrast to him - the impulsive ) who underwent a novel procedure in which all memories of a certain event or a certain person can be selectively erased . Since Joel doesn't know anything about it, when he wants to bring her his present for Valentine's Day, he is completely perplexed that she is treating him like a stranger in the bookstore where she works - and to make matters worse, turtles with someone else , of which he only sees the name, Patrick, but not the face.
Shortly afterwards, when he happened to find a solution to the riddle in the form of confidential patient information from the responsible company Lacuna , Joel decided to undergo the same procedure. You can now see from his example how the procedure takes place. After a short consultation (the head doctor, Dr. Mierzwiak, tries to make up for the lapse by preferring Joel's treatment), this takes place in two stages. First Joel has to remove all objects that remind him of Clementine from his apartment and bring them to the practice, where a neural map of his brain and a deletion program are created with her help. The actual deletion process then takes place the following night - the one before Valentine's Day - in Joel's apartment. He puts himself into a deep sleep with medication and is then connected to a device by two of the company's scientific staff that localizes and erases memories in the brain.
What happens in Joel's apartment that night is told on an outer and an inner level, which overlap and influence one another. The outer one concerns the four employees of the company. First of all, Patrick, the younger of the two people present, confesses to the other, Stan, that he fell in love with Clementine the night the procedure was used. Later he gets a call from her and goes to see her - also due to the arrival of the secretary Mary, who has obviously come to have fun with Stan. They both do that extensively while Joel's program is on autopilot. However, a sudden mistake forces her to call Dr. To call Mierzwiak. He succeeds in fixing the error. During Stan's absence, Mary reveals that she loves him. The subsequent exchange of intimacies is observed from outside not only by Stan, but also by Mierzwiak's wife. In the heated situation that followed, the most surprising revelation follows: The love for Dr. Mierzwiak is only news for Mary herself, the deletion process has already been applied to her - with success.
The inner - and at the same time more important, more extensive - level of the narrative of this night is what is happening in Joel's brain. The viewer can observe which memories he has of Clementine and how these are gradually deleted. In retrospect - but anything but chronological - Joel relives the ups and downs of their relationship back to the beginning, when he met Clementine on a beach and dressed in her orange sweatshirt. The complication leading to Dr. Mierzwiak's intervention arises from the fact that Joel tries to “get out” when he realizes how valuable some of the things he is about to lose are. Since this is prevented, he comes up with the original idea of fleeing with Clementine to places of his memory with which he had not previously associated her - such as his childhood - and virtually "hiding" them there. But this does not work either. All direct “wires” to Clementine are cut. And yet it seems that the subconscious is holding signals that enable it to get back on the path it wants to go. Such signal-like messages can be found in two of the last episodes in particular, which have the character of (wishful) dreams and contain conjuring statements such as: It would certainly be different if we could start all over again (Joel), don't forget me, but strictly you to (Clementine) and their common We meet in Montauk .
Framework story (2)
Before the framework story continues, the beginning and end of the first part are picked up again and connected to the internal story: first, Joel's awakening, which occurs immediately after Dr. Mierzwiak and Stan happens; then Clementine's return from her apartment to Joel waiting in the car. By then, the viewer had discovered both the identity and the confusion of the young man in front of the car: It is Patrick who, taking advantage of Joel's memory (s), spent the rest of the night with Clementine, now wants to go to her again and apparently believes that - contrary to all previous experience - something must have gone wrong with Joel's deletion process.
If his appearance has no consequences for the progress of the action, another act is all the more immediate: In an act of vengeance - and reparation - Mary had all patients' files sent to all patients by post, which also contains an audio cassette on which everyone can see before the start explained the treatment why he wanted to undergo it. Clementine now brings her mail in the car to Joel and lets the cassette play unsuspectingly. Both are shocked and split up again. Clementine can't take it long, drives over to him and arrives at the exact moment when his tape is playing, which contains no less hurtful things than hers. One of these details has a stronger effect than the mutual attempt at rapprochement; she runs away, and this time Joel runs after her.
The final picture shows both of them high-spirited on a snow-covered beach: knowing full well what problems they will face, they want to try again together.
Supporting film
The main film includes a supporting film that is shot like an old-fashioned commercial. He's promoting Lacuna Inc., the company / doctor's office that can erase painful memories in the brain if desired.
reception
With grossing over $ 72 million - including 34 million in the United States - and nearly nine million moviegoers worldwide, Gondry's second feature film was by far his most successful to date. The film reached around 5.5 million visitors in US cinemas, followed by Great Britain with 1.1 million visitors and France with around 600,000 visitors. The film had 196,000 visitors in Germany , 63,000 in Switzerland and 31,000 in Austria .
He received several nominations at the Academy Awards , BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards in 2005, including the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman .
In 2016 Forget Mine Landed ! in a survey of the BBC in sixth place of the 100 most important films of the 21st century . The year before, Gondry's directorial work was ranked 87th in the BBC's 100 Most Great American Films poll.
criticism
| source | rating |
|---|---|
| Rotten tomatoes | 93% |
| Metacritic | 89/100 |
"A ludicrous tragicomedy about the complex of ideas" memory / remembrance ". The overflowing book offers inexhaustible possibilities and is confronted with ever new, unexpected twists. Carried by convincing actors, the film opens a philosophical love discourse and juggles virtuoso with the potential of cinema. "
synchronization
The German dubbing was commissioned by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron . The dialogue book was written by Marianne Groß .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Joel Barish | Jim Carrey | Stefan Fredrich |
| Clementine Kruczynski | Kate Winslet | Ulrike Stürzbecher |
| Mary | Kirsten Dunst | Marie Bierstedt |
| Patrick | Elijah Wood | Timmo Niesner |
| Dr. Howard Mierzwiak | Tom Wilkinson | Lutz Riedel |
| Stan | Mark Ruffalo | Norman Matt |
Awards
- Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman
Further nominations:
- Best Actress: Kate Winslet
- Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman
- Best film editing: Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Further nominations:
- Best movie
- Best Actor: Jim Carrey
- Best Actress: Kate Winslet
- Best director: Michel Gondry
- Golden Globe Awards 2005 ( nominations )
- Best script
- Best Film (Musical / Comedy)
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Jim Carrey
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Kate Winslet
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
literature
- Lukas Bertha: The surreal aesthetics in Michel Gondry's films "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "La Science des rêves" . Thesis. Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, 2012 ( PDF file; 636 KB ).
- Michaela Krützen : classic, modern, post-modern. A film story. Frankfurt a. M. 2015.
Web links
- The official pages of the film (requires Flash)
- Forget Me Not! in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Forget Me Not! atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Forget mine not! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2004 (PDF; test number: 97 838 K).
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 26, 2016
- ↑ Box Office Mojo (accessed May 20, 2008)
- ↑ a b Lumiere - database of film attendance figures in Europe (page accessed on May 20, 2008)
- ↑ Filmförderungsanstalt - film hit list 2004
- ↑ The 100 greatest American films at bbc.com, July 20, 2015 (accessed August 24, 2016).
- ↑ Don't forget mine! at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 12, 2015
- ↑ Don't forget mine! at Metacritic , accessed February 12, 2015
- ↑ Don't forget mine! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Forget mine! In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on July 29, 2019 .
