Would you erase me?

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2004)

*SPOILER WARNING*
Wow. Ever seen a movie or heard a song that just sums you up perfectly? When I first saw this movie, I was speechless. Someone had put into words and onto film exactly how I felt. It's better to have loved and to have lost than to have never loved at all. But it's more complicated than just that overused phrase.
The movie is about moving past the negative memories of a relationship and focusing on the little things that made you fall in love in the first place. These highlights of a romance should be warm thoughts on cold, lonely nights- would you really want to erase them forever?
I appreciated the fact that at the end of the movie, the viewer isn't left with a sense that Joel and Clementine are getting a second chance to make things work. They both acknowledge that at some point, the relationship is going to turn to crap, but so what? It's everything that you feel and experience before the relationship sours that matters.