Eternal Sun shines...

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2010)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an eccentric film brought by eccentric film makers, who wanted to revolutionize the look (literally)and quality of romantic films. Gondry and Kaufman's film collaboration is phenomenal. It's a film that started a new era of film making in this clichéd genre, setting aside every other film of 2004 and undeniably making it the best.
A distinct film that has its plot about a couple, who are having a detour in their relationship and now want a permanent erasure from each others' memory so they can finally move on. A plot that sounded easy at first, but the succeeding events seemed not to be easy atall,especially for Joel Parish played perfectly by Jim Carrey.
I really think this is Jim's best performance to date. His character as an actor is expedient for the role that it felt believable, having said that this is actually an "almost fiction" film. As I said this film is full packed of people who are eccentric that make Eternal Sunshine a film that shines brighter than any other. Make no mistake; he's great (Jim Carrey) in this film, but not to dominate Kate Winslet's performance as well.
Kate Winslet playing Clementine Krucynzki , the other half of Joel in the wreck headed relationship is the first the one to do the memory erasure procedure. After months to their relationship, she realizes that it reached the point of dullness and that they can't survive living together anymore. Kate Winslet is just alluring, easy and at times lovable to watch. She can do any role and can give the exact justice for it.
Filling the great casts are Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson who are all portraying to be a team of people responsible for erasing a certain person's memory towards another.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a train ride type of film. You just seat and look out for the next station, in which metaphorically means your personal expectation. You need to watch out what happened at all. Why do they even need such a procedure in the first place? And why sometimes we feel "a love that is fresh is a love that seems perfect".
It's a film that realistically reminds us of the idealism and pragmatism of romance, relationship and most of all, Love. But for me, I simply describe the film's essence as the song by Beck describes it, "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes".
It's definitely one of the best films of the decade if not the best.