Lemme start with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". The plot revolves around Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) trying to resist Lacuna Inc's erasers (Mark Ruffalo & Elijah Wood) from completely erasing his lover Clementine Kru... Kruzc... Crap I can't spell it. I'm too lazy to search for it in the net. Let's just call her Clem (Kate Winslet), ok? And to continue, Joel doesn't want Clem removed from his memory anymore (which he agreed and hired Lacuna Inc to do in the first place). The movie's dreamlike atmosphere (I think they call it cinematography) is a change from the typical 'modern' feel of most movies today (see Crash for example), which is just appropriate since most of the scenes are set inside Barish's head.
Then there's this side story of Kirsten Dunst's character who is secretly in love with her elderly boss (the doctor in Lacuna Inc). Turns out she also had her boss erased from her memory in the past, simply because the boss is already married. It's a dull emphasis to the main topic of 'memory-erasing', but it also presents a good twist and connection to the main characters. Had Dunst not known the truth, I don't know how else they're going to end the story nicely.
I have one complain though. Patrick's (Wood) love affair with Clem was not at all helpful in making the story interesting. Although again, had Patrick not known Clem (by being partly responsible for erasing Clem's memory of Joel), he would not have tried to imitate Joel's actions and Clem would not have somehow felt that something's off.
Nevertheless, this is my kind of movie in this comic-based ridden Hollywood flicks. Lastly, I loved the song during the ending credits, "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" sung by Beck.
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