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Internal Sunshine On The Spotless Analysis

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Memories sometimes place permanent scars and seem impossible to forget. Crow Lake and Internal Sunshine on the Spotless mind both share the common canadian theme, isolation. The protagonist Kate separated herself from her family and Crow lake because of the tragedies of her parents dying and Matt marrying Marie. She separated herself not only physically but, emotionally carrying this burden of guilt of all the events that had occurred in her life. She was unable to express her emotions and inevitably, scarred these memories into her mind and was never able to overcome them. Similarly, in Internal Sunshine on the Spotless mind the two man characters Joel and Clementine both, are in great pain due to their inability to forget each other. They

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