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  Eric Hill // Fredericton, NB, Canada - 5 years ago

  Within all of the photo-ripping, ice creaming-eating, pillow-shredding, silent bathroom mirror-staring montages foisted upon us by most standard issue RomComs there aren't many (or any, maybe) that push down hard on the excruciating spot where a broken heart lives. Eternal Sunshine gets the feeling totally, and it gives it to us in measured doses wrapped in loopy ideas rendered in fantastically inventive visual ways that are as hilarious as they are touching. We need more Sunshine.

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  Brian - 5 years ago

  I just saw Elephant for the first time last year, and I don't think it had as much to say as Matty thought it did. If anything, it was about the mundane-ness of life and how evil acts can happen anywhere. I was hoping for more of a narrative - not an over-the-top insight into the killers, but something more. I think it would have been worthwhile to keep the focus on the killers' week or two prior to the incident.

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  Josh Bertram - 5 years ago

  Eternal Sunshine is very very good. If not quite the classic it's touted as, it's certainly a film that captures the fragility of memory and loneliness in a way that feels of today let alone 14 years ago.

  On the other hand, I loathe Elephant with every fibre of my being,

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  Wade McCormick - 5 years ago

  Kansas City, MO

  Matty Ballgame's top 2 of the decade. I don't love Eternal Sunshine as much as most people do, but I think Elephant is brilliant for all the reasons Matty mentioned on that show which was so long ago. Unfortunately, tragedies like the one in Elephant have become all too frequent since then, and I'm not sure how that will color people's opinions of the film.

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  Adam H. - 5 years ago

  I feel like ESOTSM is going to run away with this one simply due to it being more widely-seen and more widely-available, which is a shame. Elephant is easily in my top 5 films of all time. It's a raw, realistic, and honest portrayal of tragedy that is, unfortunately, even more applicable 16 years later. It seeks to neither portray victims in a saintly light nor condemnation. It doesn't seek to give an answer for the cause of school shootings. It simply portrays life - complicated, often-humdrum, and completely anonymous to those outside of our circle - and those lives being interrupted in a horrific and tragic way.

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  Mike Merrigan - 5 years ago

  The amount of love out there for Punch Drunk can’t, and shouldn’t be, overstated.