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Titanic
Titanic, released in 1997 and directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing film in history at the time of its release and held that record for 12 years, combining a fictional romance between characters from different social classes with a meticulously researched depiction of the real 1912 ocean liner disaster. The film's production was famously plagued by significant budget overruns and delays, reportedly making it the most expensive film ever produced at the time, and its ultimate box-office and critical success, including winning 11 Academy Awards, silenced widespread industry predictions of a commercial disaster. Cameron's decision to build a nearly full-scale replica of the Titanic's exterior at a specially constructed studio facility in Mexico, rather than relying primarily on smaller models or early-stage digital effects, gave the film's disaster sequences a physical scale and realism that significantly influenced subsequent large-scale disaster filmmaking. Celine Dion's theme song "My Heart Will Go On" became one of the best-selling singles of the 1990s, and Titanic's combination of genuine historical tragedy and a sweeping, class-crossing romance narrative made it one of the most culturally pervasive films of the decade, drawing repeat theatrical viewings from audiences at an unusually high rate.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, released in 2004, follows a couple who undergo an experimental medical procedure to erase all memory of their painful relationship, presented through a fragmented, nonlinear structure that visually depicts the protagonist's memories dissolving in real time as the erasure procedure takes place. Charlie Kaufman's screenplay won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and its structurally ambitious approach to depicting memory, regret, and the cyclical nature of romantic relationships distinguished the film sharply from more conventionally structured romantic dramas. Director Michel Gondry's use of deliberately low-tech, in-camera practical effects to depict the memory-erasure sequences, rather than relying primarily on digital visual effects, gave the film's more surreal sequences a handmade, tactile visual quality distinct from typical big-budget science fiction filmmaking. The film's ultimately ambiguous conclusion, in which the couple chooses to pursue their relationship again despite direct evidence it may end painfully as it did before, offered a genuinely complicated, non-idealized meditation on romantic memory and repetition that's made Eternal Sunshine one of the most critically acclaimed and philosophically substantive romantic films of the 2000s.
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