Amazing movie!

Rating: 9/10 (23 March 2004)

Well, what can I say about this movie except praise? The acting is very well done. One of Jim Carrey's best performance! Reviews have said that it is THE performance of his career. Kate Winslet delivers her character very good as well. This film clearly steps away from traditional filmmaking. The conventional tricks of showing flashbacks isn't used, so to the unbeknownst viewer, it might get confusing at some points. I like the way the basic timeline is setup. If you've seen lots of flashback-type movies, you'd know what I'm taking about. From the beginning I already suspected something funny was going to be happening with the shifting of time and memory.

However, the movie made me a bit dizzy at some parts, I had to look down from the screen. It was because they pretty much used a handheld cam the entire movie. It seems to be a trend nowadays. I guess the point of using a handycam is to make the film more intimate. Like you're actually there with the characters, as opposed to looking through a window at these people's lives. I like the use of the spotight when they go into their memories. It was quite different. There were a few laugh-out-loud moments though. That's probably what made me like this movie so much. It was a personal drama with intelligent comedy and a hint of sci-fi (with the whole technology of erasing sections of your memory), yet to an extent believable. I like how the supporting roles had a sense of contributing to the coming-together of the movie. Kirsten Dunst's character, which at first I thought was another one of those filler roles, was actually significant. It's one of those movies that comes together in the end, but YOU have to draw your own conclusions as to how it really ends, you know? See it, and you'd get what I'm talking.
All in all, great movie. I'd see it again. It's up there in my list of favourite movies. And trust me, I'm judgemental when it comes to movies. Takes a lot to make a movie please me.