Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Soul touching

"Valentine's Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap."

I, like a large number of people have found that reviews are most often not funny, unless they are critical. (That explains my yesteryear reviews on Vijay movies! ) And therefore tend to not write a lot of reviews even on the Tarantino, Nolan and Kubrick movies I absolutely revere or the romantic comedies/ heart warming stuff I come across. But this movie, the Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind had me so wrapped up, i just had to do it.

Jim Carrey acts in perhaps the only movie of his entire acting career, where he doesn't run around doing weird whatchamacallit faces or gibberish voices that are still funny at times (Liar Liar is THE greatest movie of all time) and yet he somehow does the perfect job as Joel Barish. Winslet in the movie, has weird hair, looks creepy like a die-hard metal fan and yet is lovely as ever as the Tangerine. I mean Clementine. 


The movie starts off as a narration by Joel. Then slowly switches to a events-actions type screenplay. I don't wanna give you the genre of the movie, for not knowing how it goes is what made me really get into it. The plot is not much. Its simple. (For those who have seen the Inception, this must be interesting. For this involves stuff about the mind as well. Neosurrealism baby!) Its the story of a couple who fall in love with each other after hating each other 'entirely'. 


Kate Winslet puts in a wonderful performance as the bubbly, fervid, free-spirited female lead whose hair color changes often. Carrey underplays and yet comes up trumps. Never knew he was so good at giving normal reactions as well. Elijah Wood does the role of a typical non-creative young man well. Don't expect anything like Sin City or Lotr if u IMDB'ed him. Kristen Dunst comes and cries for a short while too.


The movie has a brilliant screenplay. Not too slow, not too fast, but spellbinding. It also has an awesome soundtrack. The theme and the end song are too good. The intermezzi is great in places too. Nothing too great about the camera or the locations. The snow everywhere is nice though. :)


The biggest success of Eternal Sunshine perhaps lies in the way how with ease it makes the viewers identify themselves with the protagonist. Despite being an unconventional storyline, it has an emotional core amidst all. You find yourself as Joel Barish for a certain period of time in the movie. Especially, the scenes where Joel tries to keep his memories intact, you can't resist thinking about your own past. Or atleast thinking of how hard you tried. 
One of the best movies I have ever seen. :)

Jaundice-d

HepaTittis is not as glamorous as it sounds you know
Things you don't usually hear unless you have jaundice :

The Doctor :

*_* After seeing the Hepatitis Virus count. "It's Alivvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Everyone :

*_* "So what colour did you pee today?"

*_* "Your Liver is in danger."

Mom :

*_* Shall I make your "usual" - Idli?

*_* "Pls pls pls swear to me you won't eat egg puffs at College."

You know who :

*_* "So that means you still won't die?"

Kismet:

*_* "Vishnu Gowthem won't be eating chicken for five months" :(

P.S. Never never never ever offend the nurses. They can do a lot of things. A lot.

P.P.S . And It hurts too.

A Serious Post

Foreword :
Ok, this is a serious post. Seriously guys. A very very very serious post. And it is as written as serious as possible by a serious person. Or thinking again, its rather a post on a serious topic. Either ways, its serious. So read it on a serious note. 


Now when you were young, you probably had English Paper II. And you had also probably written a lot of general essays in that subject. Most often the topic for these essays would have been one of the following :


1.Poverty/Overpopulation/Unemployment/Other problems the government didn't give a damn about.
2.Pollution. Lots of Pollution.
3.If you were the Prime Minister/President/CM/Some one of this country.
4.The book you recently read/ The place you recently visited/ The dash you recently dash,etc..
5.Your Ambition/desire in life/Blah blah blah.


Now the kids who thought too much on 1 and 3 became director Shankar, Capt. Vijayakanth, Arjun, fans of director Shankar, Capt. Vijayakanth, Arjun etc..
Kids who did 4 went on to read the Harry Potter series.
Kids who chose 5 forgot what they wrote.
And the rest of them did 2.
Anyways, having grown up(A few of us think I do), I m gonna do the grown up thing and give fundas on all the topics.


Unemployment :
Unemployment is defined as the state of being jobless. 
It was a state of embarrassment/pity/lucklessness before. Now it is THE coolest thing now and you have a very good chance of landing a super figure like Tamanna or Trisha if you are jobless according to the Indian Cinema.
And I bet 100 bucks no one told you too that Engineers are the most unemployed/wrongly employed people all over the world, when you were young. Ha ha now.


Poverty/ Overpopulation :
There is a reason why I combined these specific topics. There were links among others too. But these are what you call "contrapositive" in mathematics. If India is a poor nation, it is also Overpopulated nation. If it is not Overpopulated, it means India is not poor.


Proof : A short visit to the super market tells you that a 10-piece pack of Super Strength Intensity (written Verbatim) type.. errrr "Safety" things... cost 60 bucks. Which means the average Indian couldn't afford roughly 6(or 12) bucks a night, to prevent the personification of irritating wailing from materialising. India IS a poor nation. I rest my case.


PS. As to how or why I knew such details, I want you to know that unlike other people,
I care about my country. Chak De India!


Pollution :
Pollution. Easily the most often written essay of everyone's childhood. All of us wrote it. We don't know why we wrote it. We just did it. Just like the statutory warning on a pack of cigarettes, It didn't matter then, Doesn't matter now, Never will. 
Kudos to people who did it again in your Environment Engineering paper.


Prime Minister/ President :
I wrote this essay and meant it when I was young. Somehow over the years, politics became one of the most hated things to me. I just hate em. hate em. yuck yuck yuck. Hate em. (No prizes on guessing as to how I got into college. shhhh!) Hate em!


The book I recently read :
Hitler's Mein Kampfffff... yawwwwwwwwwwnnnn.. Must read guys..


The dash you recently dash :
Use your imagination. In the comments section. (No dirty humor please. Families watch this blog. :) )


Ambition in life :

When I went to junior school,
I said, "I wanna be a doctor".
But again, I was a real big fool,
And I became an Engineer with a proctor.


So I was very sad, even though Engineering wasn't that bad,
Cos I don't wanna be glad, simply living off my dad.
I wanted a job, that would make me happy bob,
Not some slob, who no one would care to rob!


So, I asked myself a few questions,
Questions as to what I should do with my life,
My life, that had seen so many suggestions,
Suggestions that now said, "All you need is a beautiful wife". :)


So like everyone else, I noted duly,
And said, I wanna be with Angelina Jolie,
Again I ended up being sad,
Having lost this time to stupid Brad. :|

Have a serious day.