Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carey, Kate Winslett, Kirsten Dunst. Focus Features/Anonymous Content, 2004

Someone told me years ago that I would like this movie, but somehow I never got around to watching it. Finally did. Blown away.

Yes, I was.

I wish I had written this movie. This is the movie that I would like to write. This has all the elements that I love in movies: the line between what is real and what is not being constantly blurred, and through all that, you have people - people facing real emotions about who they are and what they really want out of life, and above all, simply trying to be decent and doing the right thing.

As far as the movie goes, this is not really a movie that I can appropriately describe with words. This is something that you simply must see. You have to watch this movie. However, it could possibly be a fantastic novel as well - yes, I can see it lending itself to that genre, definitely, but only at the hands of a novelist who had a strong sense of colour, and the absense of colour, and an author who is also a poet.

I know these are vagaries and don't really get to the heart of the film, but as I said, you simply have to see it.

Basic plot: Carey finds out that girlfriend wiped him from her memory so he does the same thing - but as the memories begin to fade he realizes that he truly loves her, and tries to fight it.

Plot sounds hokey. But the movie's not. Simply put - it is beautiful. This is a beautiful movie in an era when movies either TRY to be "beautiful" or just "over the top."

But this one is:

Simply.

Beautiful.



Watch it.


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