Throughout the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, director Michael Gondry, uses the constantly changing hair colour of Clementine to both show the stages of Joel and Clementine’s relationship but to also explore the changing nature of their relationship. This is done to help the viewer finally unravel and unpack the nonlinear narrative that is being told by Gondry as it reaches its loop and climax. This green shows the actual beginnings of their relationship, rehashing old seeds such as the song Clementine sings to Joel (at the end) that he doesn’t know, but instead he sings it to her. This vibrant red then transitions to a softer green colour when Joel is transported back to when they truly first meet. This red colour is used to perpetuate the final moments in the struggle of their relationship and the eventual end of it, how they jump back to memories of Joel’s childhood to try and escape the erosion of their partnership. This red hair shows the reignition of their relationship where they both realise their true love for each other and its boundless nature between Joel’s mind and reality.
This vibrant red is prevalent during the main complication when Joel and Clementine try to escape from his dreams and top his memories being erased -whilst the other sub plots escalate towards the peak of each of their stories. Why this is done is to further use the differences in her hair colour to help with the changing relationship that she and Joel share.įinally, during the more major complications as well as the final parts of the movie, Clementine’s hair changes from a more vibrant red to a green colour. This is shown by having the transition of Clementine’s first hair colour of blue -when her relationship with Joel is fresh and happy- to her orange hair -with the digression of her partnership with Joel and the start with Patrick.
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This har colour is shown in during the major conflicts of the movie that mainly involve occurrences that happen outside of Joel’s memories for example, when they fall out and when Clementine starts to see Patrick Wertz her hair is orange. When Joel and Clementine’s relationship is its final stage of being broken down and their major conflicts as a couple occur, Clementine’s hair takes on the colour of orange. This is done to aid the viewer to better understand the nonlinear narrative that Gondry carefully weaves throughout the story, sowing little seeds of foreshadowing for the viewer to uncover and figure as the move progresses.Īfter the introduction of the movie the main body of it has Joel reliving his memories of him with Clementine as their relationship breaks apart.
This is done by having Gondry adding in other little things such as the dent on Joel’s car that he noticed at the start of the movie -which is revealed to have been done by Clementine when they fall out and remove each other- and rehashed again after his memories are removed (when the loop comes back around) and the context of the dent is revealed. As the movie progresses the viewer slowly finds out that the first time Joel and Clementine meet is instead the end of the movie- when they meet after they have had their memories removed. This first starting hair colour plays an important role in how Gondry first starts to unravel the nonlinear way in which their relationship is represented. The movie starts with Clementine’s hair is blue, showing the start of their relationship and where they first meet in Montauk.
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