Moving, Surreal and Powerful

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2004)

This film is the latest from the wonderfully twisted brain of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. The basic premise of the film is what if you could erase something from your memories? When Joel Barrish (Jim Carrey) finds that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has erased him from her memories, thanks to a company called Lacuna Inc., he decides to do the same, only to realize that along with all the bad and painful memories, he is losing all the good, happy ones too.
The film has a great script and is well made by director Michel Gondry. The film's world is realistic, without any of the hi-tech you might think of from a science-fiction film, but then this isn't really about the science-fiction elements.
The acting is superb, especially from Jim Carrey who plays a very shy, retiring person and gives his character a great deal of subtlety.
Most of all this is a beautiful, genuinely moving film about love with all it's pain and heartache and all it's wonder and magic too.