Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ranks up there with the top ones. There may be 2 movies I like more than this one. I am telling you this because I want part of this blog to be about you that don’t know me to get to know me, and those that do know me to get to know me better. So I will try to post a new movie every week that will be one that I strongly recommend you watch because I will come back to these movies again and again. You don’t have to like them, but you should experience them.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (or Eternal Sunshine as I will call it from now on for the sake of typing the whole thing out over an over) is my favorite romantic comedy. I love it because it is a realistic romantic comedy that shows that love does not resolve itself at the end of one hour and thirty minutes to have Kate Hudson and Matthew Mcblahblahblah realize that even though they have lied to each other the whole movie that their contempt for one another is actually some deep seeded love.
What Eternal Sunshine tries to do is show you that love is really about accepting the other’s faults as much as it is the good parts of someone.
The plot is pretty simple…but really out there. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet have a pretty unstable relationship. He is very mopey and insecure, and she is equally insecure but masks that insecurity by acting out and coloring her hair odd colors like neon blue. Soon Joel (Jim Carrey) finds that Clementine (Kate Winslet) has undergone a procedure to “erase” Joel from her mind. Joel does the same out of anger, but as he has his memories of her erased he soon realizes that he loves her and that the good far outweighs the bad.
Don’t think for a second that I have spoiled the movie for you. I haven’t. You figure all of this out in the first 15 minutes or so. What comes after is one of the most beautifully shot movies I have ever seen.
I hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you thought of it once you are done.
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