Movie #61 – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - 108 min, cert 15.
Joel (Jim Carrey) has had a fight with his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet). He goes to see her but finds she doesn’t appear to remember him. He discovers she has had him removed from her memory using a new scientific technique. He applies to have the same thing done to remove her from his own memory, but part way through the procedure he tries to change his mind. We then follow him as he runs through his own brain, leaping disorientatingly from one memory to another, desperately trying to hang on to any one of them.
I like weird and imaginative films. I liked Being John Malkovich which was made by the same director as this one. But Eternal Sunshine makes that movie look positively mundane. I’ve tried to summarise the movie, but in reality it’s way more complex than I’ve described. But it had me hooked from start to finish, and I loved the ending which fits the rest of the film perfectly.
It’s refreshing to see Carrey in a role that doesn’t require all that rubber-faced buffoonery that made him a household name. Kate Winslet was also good, but I’m not sure I really believed there could be any chemistry between them. They just seemed too incompatible.
Score – 9/10. A thoroughly enjoyable romp, but I would have liked to believe in the Carrey/Winslet pairing a bit more.
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