If your appetite is for romantic movies which don’t follow the routine run about of the boy chasing the girl and winding up married on top of rose beds and bouquets, then “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” will take you to a world few people have ever seen. A world created by Michael Gondry, the French director, little known until then other than for a few decent films.
The film involves around Joel Barish (breathtakingly portrayed by ‘funny man’ Jim Carrey) and his lover Clementine Kruczynski (rendered flawlessly by Kate Winslet), where Joel an average guy meets the girl of his dreams, the one girl he seems to have fallen in love with for the first time in his life, or is it the first time ? . The movie generally plays with the audience’s memory where we are taken right into Joel’s brain. The general plot deals with the guy losing the girl and the guy not able to cope up with this ends up undergoing a procedure to erase his memory. The movie follows Joel and his love through a world created by memories or the lack there of it. Michael Gondry, Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth who were responsible for the story have done a remarkable job crafting an extremely moving yet cliché-free script of romance and originality. The movie released during the summer of 2004 in the USA and its credibility was given a major boost when it won an Academy award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay in 2005. The movie received generally rave reviews for its uniqueness amongst the leading critics. During a talk show promotion event Jim Carrey famously screened the movie teaser on his bald head, shaped like a rectangular screen.
Eternal sunshine is one of the strongest and most compelling stories of romance ever to make it to the big screen, with expertly crafted storyline and narration.