What Clementine's Orange Sweatshirt Means in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind turns 20 this year, but the film has become more renowned as years have passed. Michel Gondry's film has a fragmented storyline that depicts the complicated relationship between Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). But the film is far more deeply layered than that. It is filled with absurdities and truth about what it means to fall in love and break up and fall in love all over again. But one particular absurdity in the film is the oversized orange sweater that Clementine wears. Although there doesn't seem much else to the sweater other than its eye-catching color, like most things in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the orange sweater has a deeper meaning.