Can you hear me? I don't want this any more! I want to call it off!

[rubbrducky115]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
cast: jim carrey, kate winslet, mark ruffalo, tom wilkinson, elijah wood, kirsten dunst
what imdb says: A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

1. This movie is a crazy trip. Like, okay, I've seen adaptation. which is another Charlie Kaufman venture into the land know as "I'm-high-on-some-sort-of-drug" land, but this kicks it's ass and then smokes something else very quickly and gets on with it's story. It takes that old saying, "is it better to have loved and lost, or to never have loved at all" to like ridiculous science fiction heights, and I must say that I love it.
2. It's been well documented since the rush for Oscar season '09 that I have a small, yet powerful, beef with Kate Winslet. Probably because of all her crazy campaigning for the gold man, and probably because I've never really actually seen her in anything. And once or twice she's said something that bugs me, and seems sort of a kook. (A far cry from my model to which every other actor is measured, Mrs. Gummer herself.) ANYWAY BEFORE I MAKE THIS ABOUT MERYL AGAIN! This movie made me actually sort of like Kate Winslet. She's not adorable and british, like in The Holiday, an addition that may have warmed me more this this performance... but whatever. If she had won the Oscar for this movie, I probably wouldn't even be angry at her this year for all her non-oscar whinging, AND Hilary Swank would be down an Oscar. So I wouldn't dislike her either! (No way can she win for upcoming Amelia, she'll have more Oscars than Meryl) Anyway I liked Kate in this, and as a person I suppose she's quite alright! THERE! I've said it! I'm making progress. :)
3. Jim Carrey when he isn't throwing himself around like an idiot or eating scenery or being generally a hot mess on screen is a good Jim Carrey. I really like him when he's trying to be serious. Bits of humor slip through, but they're dry and funnier in the midst of real angst. Although you really do have to adjust to it, at the beginning you just expect it and sit in wait for the slapstickkery.
4. I really enjoyed the whole concept of the thing. I mean, god knows I would never ever have the procedure and it's sort of INSANE because events and stuff in your life shape you to what you are. I love this internet quote of "I'm not original, I'm the product of everyone I've ever met" or something along those lines. It's so true, everything that happens spurs everything else and, much like in science fictiony worlds, changing one event can be catastrophic. (Believe you me, I've seen enough Doctor Who to understand what you can and cannot change without crazy monsters with wings and huge fangs breaking loose from the time-space continuum and fucking your shit up, excuse my french) And this, of course, is the moral of the story folks. But it's more delicately thrown at you than say, Slumdog Millionaire, in fact! My mother had no idea what it was about. Until I told her. GO ME
5. The movie is also very pretty, to end shallowly. The colors are wonderful and it's shot awesomely. I love the melting books in the bookstore, and little Joel and Clementine. Love the scene where Joel is under the table and a baby. Such a good film.

coming up: happy-go-lucky, in bruges, quantum of solace, away we go, star wars (IV-VI), postcards from the edge