Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) | Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) | Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet | For me, a drama - an intense one

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	Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet Universal Studios, 2004 average customer review:based on 651 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Joel Barish goes through a procedure to remove memories of his girlfriend Clementine from his mind, only to realize the value of what they had as each memory is erased.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 4-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD

A remarkable piece of cinema

I truly enjoyed this movie. Although I will warn you that if you want traditional romance, comedy, and drama, then this film is not for you. After all it is made by Focus Features, and was written by Charlie Kauffman.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a quirky comedy/drama. Jim Carrey is amazing as the understated, and at times, dull Joel. Kate Winslet is perfection as the outspoken, trying-so-hard-to-impress-you freak girl Clementine. They meet and have a wonderful relationship, but like so many others, they fall apart.

In the quirkiest of turns, Joel finds out Clementine has had him erased from her memory, so Joel decides to do the same. And this is where the action and emotion begin. While remembering all the pain and anguish this love affair caused him, he also realizes that those emotions pale in comparison to the love and affection they also shared (but have apparently forgotten about).

This movie has a truly stunning ending that makes me cry with happiness. The story is so brutally honest that anyone who has ever loved and lost should feel some sort of connection to these characters and their plight.

I love this movie, and it will continue to be one of my favorites for all time. Highly recommended!!

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For me, a drama - an intense one

I rented this movie with my husband, one of our first 'dates' after our seperation. Since it was marketed as a comedy, i figured it would be good to have some light entertainment since we'd been working through so much heavy stuff.

Ok, no, not light. Not light at all, esp considering where we were. Some of the lines at the end had me bawling my eyes out! She reminds him of all the things which will go wrong in the relationship, and he says, Ok. That message that, for all the hard, frustrating, awful things that come in a relationship, love is still worth it - of course even a sense of destiny as the movie presents it . . . was not a light message for me at that time! I loved, loved, loved the movie tho - probably my favorite ever from Jim Carrey, since i'm not a slap-stick fan. I loved the mixed-up time line, the quirkiness of the main characters, and again, the message about how important our painful memories and experiences are for us.

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Ok film

Interestingly, as the film scripts of Charlie Kaufman have gotten praised through the roof over the last several years, with comparisons ranging to Herman Mankiewicz, Robert Towne, Paul Schrader, and Paddy Chayefsky- at least in terms of recognizability, most writers I have known have been far less impressed with his solipsistically obsessed screenplays than the general public.
I think that is because that any reader of fiction or poetry in the last 40 or so years has been so inundated with puerile post-modernism that self-referential tautologies fail to impress. This is the fourth CK-scripted film I've seen and easily the best film was that he adapted from an outside source- the film of Chuck Barris's autobiography Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind- directed by George Clooney. That's because, given the source, CK was forced to stay on track and not veer back into his own ego like the Titanic to the- You get what I mean. His first filmed screenplay, Being John Malkovich, was a cute humorous fable- not too deep, nor too troubling. His second scripted film, Adaptation, was merely a banal recapitulation of themes laid out in the first film, yet with the added baggage of destroying a potentially interesting film with a last third larded with the neuroses of writer's block raised to epopee. No, not really, but the attempt was embarrassing. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind explores similar areas of memory and mind far better, although the film has some notable flaws. I grade it as a 75 out of 100- good, but nowhere near the great rankings many critics bestowed upon it....However, this is still the best CK film based on his original script. The problem is that his `original' scripts are all mere slight tangents on the same tired theme. Too bad, because a better, more original screenwriter would have laid the template for a truly great film, not just a muddling repeat viewing of a maculate mind unlighted.

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