Very depressing.

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2017)

A unique thing about Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind is that the movie plot is unoriginal, but apart from that this movie is very depressing. Here we have two main characters "Joel" (Jim Carrey) and "Clementine" (Kate Winslet) who have a relationship until one day "Clementine" doesn't know who the hell "Joel" is, we find out that she had a type of brain surgery to remove all memories of him, clearly their relationship is too intense and she wants out, "Joel" ends up doing the same thing only for them to meet again and them finding out that the science brain project doesn't actually work, we are forced to look at things from "Joel's" point of view as we only see him get the operation or whatever the hell it is and we find out that he doesn't want to go through with it, but it's too late. The special effects are very well- done and clever, but that can't save this wreck of a film.
The performances, dialogue and directing is very good, it's the awful plot that is the major problem.
By the end of the movie they both listen to each other's tapes and "Clementine" tries to depart hastily, "Joel" practically begs her to give their relationship another chance, she tells him they would only get fed up of each other and the same thing will happen again, his response is "okay", and she also replies with an "okay" meaning they are going to give their relationship another go, the final scene is them on the beach together.
This cine could have bought a strong message, but instead it ends with a romantic comedy ending which is not where the majority of the movie was actually going.
This film would have been a lot better if they'd both have decided not to have anything more to do with each other at the end scene. We see that they're not good for each other hence them both wanting to wipe away memories of one another, also there's the definition of insanity - doing the same things expecting different results, that is the major problem here, they had the mind-erasing operations twice and they're now going to go through the exact same vicious cycle again.
The fantasy genre aspect is something that every person has wanted to do at some point (which is wanting to erase a person from their mind whether it's a relationship or friendship) but the reality is God didn't make humans like that, you have to simply get over this or that person, accept that it didn't work out and get on with your life. Science isn't the answer, and it's proved here, this is a pretty childish movie - a person has to wipe away a memory of someone via a scientific machine, oh please! give me a break!, the brain is a powerful thing and if you really want to not think about someone you actually can train your mind to not think about them, it is actually that simple, if only the grown characters had stopped and thought "thinking about this person causes me pain, so i'm simply not going to think about them".
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a pointless movie with no decent message, unless however the message is showing the effects of insanity, if the director is going with the message that they're going to end up doing the same thing again, then that's at least one decent thing about this plot.