10 October 2005

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is a movie with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet (and, for the viewer's sake, it's Jim "Truman Show" Carrey, not Jim "Dumb and Dumber" Carrey).
It's a movie with a story to tell (and a beautiful one too).
It's about love, human nature. It tells us how love is both strong and fragile; how you should live it everyday and not discard it lightly; how words and acts can hurt the other one and how they can be regretted.

The story is rather simple: Joel (Jim Carrey) meets Clementine (Kate Winslet). She has temperament and he's an all around nice guy; they quickly fall in love. Then you learn that she has had him erased from her memory. This is the starting point of the story and once you've accepted it (which you do surprisingly well for the sake of a great story and great actors), you follow all the steps of Joel and Clementine's relationships, complicity, clashes, tenderness and anger. The pictures are superb and both main actors are at the top of their skills.

I recommend this movie to everyone. Everyone will learn from it. And even if you don't think so, you will.

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