This film is about loss, and what we choose to believe. It is rather grandiose in its intent to materialize what we choose to believe into mechanized, banal decisions. The film is not a love story, although it has been called that. It is not anything. It is like its dreams, ideas popping up and shattering down. The film stars Jim Carrey (in a role that is better than anything he has done and ever will do) and Kate Winslet. There are a few other characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Tom Wilkinson. To reveal how people are made to forget and which characters are made to forget certain things, would be spoiling the movie. Thus, I describe the experience of watching it. It is extremely creative and original, it almost seeps with it, pleasing its viewers at its wit and ideas. It is also very simple, despite the plot's complexity. For the ideas behind the film are simple. They are ideas of loss, creativity, strength, love, pain. But these emotions are at such a high level of familiarity that they become very prominent to the movie's success. It is a movie that applies to most everyone. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one the best movies of the last decade.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: ★★★★
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