Gritty, Poignant, Good acting Jim !!!

Rating: 9/10 (26 April 2004)

This low-budget film speaks to somebody in a relationship for a long time when things go sour, and asks the important question, "What if you could go back and erase the entire relationship from your memory, would you want do it ?? Would the same relationship develop all over again?"
Film is told in reverse, expertly, and i love files like this : Ben Kingsley in "Betrayal", Carrie-Ann Moss in "Memento", and now, "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind".
Story of a love relationship between Joel and Clementine, two nobodies who fall in love in a quirky way.
The film hinges on something impossible to believe : that a doctor could develop a technique to selectively erase memories. This ploy on the part of the screenwriters is developed so subtly and perfectly, without special effects, and is so central to the plot, that it becomes totally believable and this makes the whole movie happen spectacularly. It also gives the screenwriters license to show surreal flashbacks in jim carrey's mind, of his relationship with clementine, and his childhood, and many other events.

Best thing about the movie was that i felt the love of their relationship near the end of the film. the first 10 minutes is extremely bleak in this film, hang in there and it will get MUCH MUCH better.