Hey. It's Anna. I contemplated on this one. It was between Eternal Sunshine and The Complete Collection of Wallace & Gromit Shorts (and you thought there was only and movie, no. This is what the movie is based on). I decided I'd do Wallace and Gromit on Monday. I promise.
Now that we're done with the more or less irrelevant things...MOVING ON!
It begins at the end. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) meets Clementine (Kate Winslet), a girl who constantly changes her hair colour and her mind. She is literally CRAZY! It gets really confusing after that, really weird.
We learn that before that Clementine gets Joel erased from her mind with some random weird procedure thing, and so, after learning this Joel gets the same procedure. Shortly swirl and collage of everything that has happened in the past with Clementine and Joel gets vomited onto the screen. They were in love. They were together. But they had their problems too. It kind of goes from the end all the way to the beginning and then to the end again. At first it's hard to follow but then it makes sense.
All the while future Clementine and Patrick (Elijah Wood) get together and then different things happen with them as Clementine begins to remember Joel when Patrick steals his things (and quoting Joel's letters) and gives them to Clementine not thinking that they were linked together in any way.
As for the acting I think it was beautiful. Jim Carrey strays from his goofy self and gets serious (well I guess he's seriousish in The Truman Show). Kate Winslet shines as a quirky, crazy woman coming up with eccentric. But she's always serious so whatever. And then there's Elijah Wood but without a British accent he isn't as good. Mark Ruffalo doesn't really have a specific character he likes to play and lets his funnier side through in this film. Then Kirsten Dunst shows up and quotes some stuff to some music and poops on the movie and it makes me sad.
I guess it's just one of those films that are interpreted and looked at a million different ways.
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