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Hello, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one,

let alone a visually revolutionary, metaphysical exploration into the core of relationships,

sadness, and love. I'm one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here as always with my co-host, Chris Winterbauer,

and Chris, what do you have for us today? Today we are discussing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless

Mind, the cinematic equivalent of that S&L sketch, Wells for Sad Boys. If you guys haven't seen it,

this was, as you mentioned, I would argue, an unexpected high point of

independent cinema of the early to mid-2000s. And it's a movie that I think I misunderstood for

nearly 20 years, kind of like Joseph Gordon Levitt's character with The Graduate in 500 Days of Summer.

So I'm really excited to talk about it today. Lizzie, had you seen

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind before? And what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for the podcast? Well, of course I've seen this. This came out when we were what, like 14, 15? 15, yeah. I saw this when it came out. I don't think I saw it in theaters, but we had it on DVD. and I watched it quite a lot.

And then, you know, in college, obviously kept watching it.

But I personally... came out. I don't think I saw it in theaters, but we had it on DVD, and I watched it quite a lot.

And then, you know, in college, obviously kept watching it. But I probably haven't seen this

movie in close to 20 years. It's one that I thought I knew back to front. And I really thought

I knew what I was getting into when I sat down to watch it for the podcast. And I will tell you, and I texted

you this, but as it started, I did feel a creeping sense of dread because I was like, oh, no.

Oh, no. Uh-oh. The manic pixie dream is very alive in this movie. Yeah, Turtle Sunshine said,

Garden State, holds my fear.

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