Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opens with a extreme close-up shot of the main character, Joel's eyes as he wakes up in his room, the shot focuses on his eyes, tired, sluggish eyes; the camera follows his eyes to the window and the blue&orange glass decor dangling by his window, a diegesis of what happens later on in the movie(or rather before in his reality).  Then the shot cuts to a long shot and overview of his room filled with clutters of  his stuff, the lighting in his room is extremely washed out, the only light source being the window giving a back lit effect to the shot and the only variation of color being the faint orange-ish red here and there, a diegesis of a remembrance(or lack of) of Clementine; the rest of the shot is just dull dim and the dark blue silhouette of Joel himself, surrounded by other darkness. A reflection of his current states, the color, fun, and happiness drained out of his life with Clementine erased from his memory.

After Joel gets up, in a what seems to be a hurry, he waits for the train at the train station, this long shot is focused on the crowd of people also waiting, with only the man closet to the lens out of focus. However usually when the main character is out in a crowd of people, the crowd is blurred and out of focus, but in this shot Joel is in focus along with everyone else around him, poking his head out barely visible, lost in the sea of people. This misc-en-scence emphasis the overwhelming-ness of his belittlement in his reality and importance  of himself and more specifically, his loneliness even though he is surrounded by people. Again, the shot is overpowered by the gloomy blue with the faint dabs of orange.

This medium shot is a romantic shot of Joel trying to hold on to the memory of Clementine, the color contrast is obvious in this shot, the shot is well lit, suggesting they are in fact happy together, but as the color and text slowly draining from the books around the couple; it serves as a diegesis of Joel slowly losing grasp of the memories of his love, Clementine. The color of Clementine has been a diegesis since the very first scenes of her, she is always wearing bright colors, often Clementine(haha), and her hair is always a fun, bright, and unusual color; orange, green, blue... in that order, also suggesting her inner feelings. She had green hair when they met for the first time, green, a color of spring and freshness, ready to take on thw world; and as they fell in love, it was bright red, a color of love and passion, then after they broke up and she erased Joel from her memory, it was blue, a sad sad color even after she met Joel again for the "first time" blue because she was heart broken even if she wasn't consciously aware.

This a scene toward the end of the movie, a medium shot of Joel and Clementine after they realize and remember their past, and the memories of their times together they tried to erase. This shot uses backlighting, creating a romantic feel giving soft lines and edges of couple, a semisilhoutte effect. The shot is unnecessarily far apart, crowded in a narrow hallway but standing as far as they could be, and a soft blue wall with an orange door is seen in distance between them, just like the color contrast of Clementine's hair and jacket; and Joel of course is still dressed in dark clothing just like his every other outfit. The color contrast is subtle, unlike the the bright contrast throughout the movie, it is faint now; suggesting eventhough they have their differences, they understand and except them for who they are, Clementine thinks Joel is boring(dark) and Joel thinks Clementine is crazy(bright colors), it's ok because they love each other despite the clash of their beliefs.