"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. :)
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