Ok, so I haven't watched this movie in about two and a half months, but I feel the need to review it now anyway.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a trippy, intellectual journey through the mind and memories (literally) of Joel Barish as he fights to keep his memories about his ex-girlfriend Clementine.
After discovering that his girlfriend had erased him from her memory, Joel decides to do the same, but while asleep in his own head, he realizes that sometimes its better to remember the bad times, because with out the bad times there never would have been good ones.
And then there's a whole 'nother story line with Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, and Kirsten Dunst (the technicians who are erasing memories)
Now I know that sounds really sappy, but like any good story this movie does have a decent, but not over baring amount of romance (believe me, I can't do sappy romances, they get all gooshy and my brain starts to run a little I swear).
Joel, the soft spoken and obliging business man who never does anything spontaneous is played by, get this, Jim Carrey. For those of you who are determined the man cannot play a serious role, this is a must see. His acting was phenomenal. Playing his counterpoint, the brightly haired, spontaneously, and mildly alcoholic Clementine is Kate Winslette. Kate plays this part to a T. Clem is gritty and straight forward, she takes no sh*t from anyone. My personal favorite quote from this movie is hers when she says, "Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours."
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Its a little "futuristic" in the sense that memory erasure is a publicly available service like walking into a doctor's office, but it's not like the Jetsons or anything. This story is very..I want to say real, but I don't know if that really works...anyway, its amazing; romantic at times, but very real life, funny but not a comedy. I highly suggest it.
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