A fascinating story

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2005)

My wife and I went to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind not knowing what to expect, except that Jim Carrey was in it and that it had a high rating on IMDb.
Unfortunately the experience was somewhat ruined by the woman sitting next to my wife, who insisted on laughing at everything Carrey said, whether it was funny or not. It certainly wasn't funny for us.
But that wasn't Carrey's fault, who is brilliant as Joel. Joel falls in love with Clementine, played by Kate Winslet in her best performance ever. After an argument, they decide to take to drastic measures to rid themselves from all memories of each other.
This is the start of a surrealistic sequence, where we share what goes on inside Joel's mind as the erasing process takes place. Fascinating stuff, except that the woman stubbornly refused to stop laughing: angry looks or verbal abuse didn't help, and the movie's plot apparently didn't either.
I'll probably buy this on DVD when it comes out so we can see it again.