Reel To Reel:
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
How It Rates: ****Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
Rated: R
Red Flags: Language, Sexual Content, Drug Use
Preconceived Notions: A lot of people are going ga-ga about this film featuring Jim Carrey in a serious (but not completely serious) role
The Bottom Line: Well worth the hype -- could be a huge sleeper hit
Many a person would want to get inside Jim Carrey's head for sixty minutes. This film is about as close as you can get, with its dreamlike sequences and sheer unpredictability.
Explaining the plot of this film would rob it of its gush of originality, so I will merely say it revolves around two guys, two girls, a doctor, and a mind-erasing technique to wipe out memories of ex's. But breaking up, as always, is hard to do.
Jim Carrey retreads some of the ground from The Truman Show, playing somebody who's trying to escape from an overwhelming force running his life. Kate Winslet's character seems undaunted by that force, at least we think she is.
Much could have been made of the sci-fi aspects of this story. Some other director might have turned it into another Minority Report set in the year 2033 with a moralizing layer. But director Michel Gondry and company realize this is still a love story, surrealistic as it is. We'll learn the lessons for ourselves and our love lives.
Eternal Sunshine is a great date movie, something to watch with somebody you've known for awhile and you want to hold onto, memories and all.
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