You're posting a lot; I'm replying a lot. Yep, must be Friday. :)
I so wanted to enjoy "The Science of Sleep" but just plain didn't. Gondry is clearly a talented director, but this felt like the demo reel for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", all the artifice, none of the plot or character development that made that movie compelling. I'm all for leaving things open to interpretation, but by the end of SoS, I felt more like Gondry had set out to write a Charlie Kaufman script and, discovering it's harder than it looks, flailed around a bit and tried to pretend the flaws were art.
For all of that, the visuals were very pretty though.
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Date: 2006-10-06 05:54 pm (UTC)I so wanted to enjoy "The Science of Sleep" but just plain didn't. Gondry is clearly a talented director, but this felt like the demo reel for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", all the artifice, none of the plot or character development that made that movie compelling. I'm all for leaving things open to interpretation, but by the end of SoS, I felt more like Gondry had set out to write a Charlie Kaufman script and, discovering it's harder than it looks, flailed around a bit and tried to pretend the flaws were art.
For all of that, the visuals were very pretty though.