Genre
Science Fiction Romance
Love stories that need a speculative premise to work — memory erasure, artificial minds, time slippage. The technology exists to make an emotional problem literal.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry · 2004
Her
Spike Jonze · 2013
Solaris
Steven Soderbergh · 2002
The Fountain
Darren Aronofsky · 2006
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