Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind (2003)

 Starring- Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Woods, and Tom Wilkinson.

Directed By- Michael Gondry.

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Joel Barish- "I’m always anxious, thinking I’m not living my life to the fullest, taking advantage of every possibility, make sure I’m not wasting one second of the little time I have.”



Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an exceptional romantic drama. I am saying exceptional because for me it looks more like a romantic psychological thriller because the main idea of this movie is centered, let's say, on the psychology of two main characters Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). Or I even would say, the movie shows the fight between the rational aspect of human nature and the emotional one.


"You can erase someone from your mind, but not from your heart". 

You see, the story is pretty simple. But the way it's operated, the way how different stories and different realities cross each other is incredible. Sometimes you even lose the touch with the reality because you think all this is Joel's memories and imagination.
The portrayal of Joel by Jim Carrey and of Clementine by Kate Winslet is spot on. They feel like they got in the skin of the characters pretty well. Their act seems effortless.



The direction is very clean and brings everything on paper to the screen very well. Screenplay deserves a special mention because the strength of this movie is ‘the writing’ otherwise with the shaky and jump cut like feel of the film everything can go very wrong.

"Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention". This line gets me everytime.The movie induces the idea of predestination. Somehow, the movie convinced me, the law of pre-determination rules our life. There are things, people and events that surely befall us, no matter how hard we try to evade them.It's willingness to flout conventions and eschew formulas.


 However in real life, there is no going back once we rip the relationship apart. We rarely forgive or forget. We will never know if we missed the destined-to-be.
My Rating- 7/10
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