Maybe this isn't for everyone, but it's so well written, directed, and acted that I found it beguiling, thought provoking entertainment.

Rating: 8/10 (22 September 2019)

Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) does not start to define this script complicated. One morning shy Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) chooses not to go to job but to hop on a train to Montauk, a seaside retreat on Long Island's eastern tip, where he is walking along the beach.He meets extroverted Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) on the manner home, who picks him up more or less on the train and starts a friendship. Then she decides that she doesn't want to go on so she goes to a kind of clinic run by Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), where the brain of a person can be erased from particular memories, to erase Joel.
Joel learns about this and is going to the clinic.He's so angry that he's applying for Clementine to erase his brain. The concept is that he takes all the stuff he has to do with her and then they come to his apartment, placed over his head a large electronic thing attached to a laptop, and he goes to sleep as they remove from his brain overnight everything to do with her.She shouldn't even be a memory when he wakes up in the morning. But he changes his mind during the night, while he's asleep. It gets complicated here. It gets complex here. Not only are the engineers performing the purge, Mary (Kirsten Dunst), Stan (Mark Ruffalo), and Patrick (Elijah Wood), distracted by romance as we travel through Joel's brain, we discover ourselves engaged in time warps and other mental shenanigans as Joel fights the process while he sleeps. It's technology love; who's going to conquer?Besides things that aren't what they look like, relationships aren't the way we think. It doesn't seem that even the opening sequence was what we believed it was. This may not be for everyone, but it's so well written, directed (Michel Gondry) and acting that I found it to beguiling, thought-provoking amusement.