a great honest heartfelt movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 August 2005)

Joel (Jim Carrey) is heartbroken when he finds out, via finding a telegram mailed to a mutual friend, that his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), in a moment of supreme anger and frustration, went to have a procedure to have all of her memories of him wiped clean. So he decides to do the same thing, only realizing while the process is going on that he truly doesn't want to forget her. This is a beautiful film dealing with love, loss, grief, acceptance, anger, and the shades in between, that I almost gave up on watching (I tried to get into it before, but due to the unbearable slowness of the beginning I had turned off a little after the opening credits rolled). I'm so very glad that I gave it another chance, as I found it to be an extremely heartfelt,honest, and rewarding film. All the performances are pretty much spot-on and this is without a doubt Jim Carrey's best performance ever in a film, hands down. I truly can't fathom why a lot of viewers found this movie to be hard to comprehend, as I found the movie pretty straight forward in it's simplicity, despite the roundabout way it choose to present itself.
My Grade: A-
DVD Extras: Disc 1)Commentary by director Michel Gondry and writer Charlie Kaufman; "A Look Inside 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind'" featurette; "A Conversation with Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry"; 7 minutes of Deleted scenes; Polyphonic Spree "Light & Day" Music Video; fake Lacuna commercial; Promo for Focus Pictures; Trailers for "Vanity Fair", and "The Motercycle Diaries" Disc 2) 20 minute "Inside the Mind of Michel Gondry" featurette; 17 minute "Anatomy of a Scene: Saratoga Avenue" featurette; A Conversation with Kate Winslet and director Michel Gondry; and more Deleted/Extended Scenes
Random notes: Also comes with a 28 page booklet