A Wonderfully Made Movie

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2019)

While I did enjoy The Truman Show quite a bit, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film that isn't as good, but is a very unique and well made movie with a great plot, great dramatic sequences, great acting, and a good romance story.
Jim Carrey plays a guy, named Joel, who meets a woman named Clementine (played by Kate Winslet). They form a wonderful relationship, until she undergoes a procedure to erase Joel from her memory. This upsets Joel, so he decides to do the same thing. Three people Stan (Mark Ruffalo), Mary (Kirsten Dunst), and Patrick (Elijah Wood), operate on Joel, and Joel seems to slowly forget about Clementine, but also goes through parts of his life and tends to fall in love with her all over again.
This movie is well directed by Michael Gondry, and shows a great theme of love, passion, and loss. Carrey and Winslet do wonderful jobs not only at playing their characters, but having really brilliant chemistry. The other actors did a great job as well, and the movie had a really good cast altogether.
The story was well developed, and similar to The Truman Show, I recommend watching it twice because it's made in a way to confuse you at first, but when you watch it again, you can understand and appreciate it a whole lot more.
Overall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is no Truman Show, but is a beautifully made movie and holds up 15 years later.