They can sear themselves into the fibers of your being or fade into obscurity. They can be personal or universal or both at the same time. They can document with tangible details or toy with the truth. Movies and memories speak the same language.
#JOEL AND CLEMENTINE MOVIE#
To see the real stairs again, they'd have to recall those grainy images from the movie and use their imagination - it turned out, Hurricane Sandy destroyed Gondry's unassuming shooting location in 2012.
The makeshift tour guide knew where Joel's retreat would have been - out in front of the old Ocean Surf Resort, on an anonymous patch of East End beach - but in place of the creaky, sand-dusted steps that they knew, the tourists found the smooth, reinforced replacement. A whispered mantra kept them marching on: meet me in Montauk.Įxcept when they arrived, the stairs weren't there. ("It appears this is my first entry in two years.") Though local bros gawked and the sand (an overrated assortment of tiny rocks) made each forward-step three times harder, a structure as simple as a set of stairs was worth the trek for this group of romantics. On an overcast Saturday in August, 40-some-odd fans of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's sensitive, surreal romance from 2004, plodded across Kirk Park Beach in Montauk, Long Island to glimpse a spot they knew from their movie-going memories: the set of stairs where Joel (Jim Carrey) discovers a set of journal entries scribbled down before the deletion of his memories. The steps were gone and nearly forgotten.
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