Fruitfully unaware

Rating: 9/10 (25 June 2005)

I'm happy to say that I came into 'Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind' with absolutely no idea what to expect. Although it had been out for at least a year and quite a while on DVD, I, well, took about a year off watching movies completely. So now I'm playing catch-up, and I heard people talking ecstatically about this movie, so I took the plunge, even though I'm not the biggest Jim Carrey fan in the world. I knew it had to do with memory loss? Or something. So, I came in, again with no real expectations.
Well, I have to say, I haven't enjoyed a movie as imaginative a movie in a long time. Jim Carrey plays a sad sack of a man who meets the girl of his dreams (literally ha ha!). When she erases any memory of him using a controversial procedure, he gets the procedure done too, as he doesn't want to go through the pain of knowing he was in love with her and her not knowing a thing (you're following me? Good). Only, there are complications, when the girl of his dreams, doesn't, um, want to erase herself from his dreams. And neither does he. It's a hell of a tricky story, and I don't know where the heck Charlie Kaufman gets his stories from, but he deserved every ingot of god that was in the Oscar for that screenplay. Along with Carrey, it also stars Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst (who is great here). Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, and Elijah Wood, who I gotta say, is the fastest actor ever NOT to get typecast, as he's so funny here.