Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Art House Cut

The story's well condensed, giving it poignancy. Interesting how this edit got me thinking about past relationships.

The aged film effect is sometimes unobtrusive (bueno), at other times draws attention to itself (less bueno).

Conceptually and as far as the narrative goes, I enjoyed this edit quite a bit. Unfortunately I found the edit's film damage effects unconvincing and fairly distracting. Cool idea though.

When love turns sour, there's a lot of residual pain. This short explores the notion of removing that pain. But like Kirk said - "They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves." I think that sums up the surreal experience that follows. Removing the bad means removing the context for the good memories that make us hurt. Interesting stuff. Film degradation/damage effects seem convincing to me.