Pretty freaking brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2004)

spoilers. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is Carrey's latest movie and to tell you the truth; it's probably the best his ever made. The movie is neither pure comedy or pure drama, it's a sort of THE TRUMAN SHOW in twist between those two genres. Carrey does a very good performance in the leading role, and together with more great actors like Tom Wilkinson, Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst this movie is truly one of the biggest highlights per today in 2004.
Joel and Clementine is a odd couple that's easily going threw bad and good times. But then, Clementine is suddenly gone and when Joel meets her again she pretends that she doesn't know him. Joel being in a confusing situation tells this to his parents, and then he gets to know that some doctors has erased her memory of him. This confusing him even more, he decides to check it out. Joel decides himself to erase Clementine from his memory, but, under the procedure Joel suddenly decides to stop the whol erasing. He starts running away from the memory-eraser, with Clementine beside her...
The movie is confusing, fascinating, interesting, charming and wonderfully made. Jim Carrey that's always been the big-joker with funny faces and stuff, simply delivers a fine character performance here of a man that really doesn't want to loose his girlfriend. Dunst, as always a charming girl that truly is one of the big female talents inside Hollywood. ETERNAL SUNSHINE is very complicated in its way, and the movie is so extremely charming and fine made that I sat smiling threw it's runtime. It's not the everyday movie and I really enjoyed watching it, because it was so freaking different! The charming part of it lays like a blancet over the romance, soundtrack and directing part. The laughs lays in Carrey's brilliance as usual, being a born-to-do-comedy actor. I really recommend this, being one of the most peculiar and charming movies in a long, long time.
STARS: 4-5/5