10 Movies That Totally Destroyed You

7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

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Charlie Kaufman has always been a great writer, but sometimes his movies can lose themselves in their own gimmicks. No matter how weird and confusing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind gets though, everything feeds back into the relationship between Joel and Clementine, and their beautiful, gut-wrenching time together.

Tying the plot around an idea anyone who's dealt with a breakup has no doubt thought about - if we could erase our memories so we didn't have to ponder over what could have happened with an ex-lover, would we? - Eternal Sunshine jumps through different stages of the duo's relationship, from the great honeymoon period to the bitter breakdown at the end.

Of course, this is all wrapped up in the final revelation that the two have been involved in this cycle of dating and then deleting each other for years, destined to repeat the same process over and over again

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