Review of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) by Adrian B — 20 Feb 2013

Extremely convoluted movie in which Jim Carrey plays a lonely man named Joel Ballish who travels by train to get his car fixed. On the train, he meets this generally strange and somewhat psycho red-haired woman (Kate Winslet) for which he begins to spend time with and she becomes exceptionally obsessive with him.

Then all of sudden, after hanging out with him for a while, she dumps him and seems to not even acknowledge his existent. Joel goes bananas and sees a psychiatrist (Tom Wilkinson), who, along with several others (Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, and Mark Ruffalo), try to counteract his problem by erasing his memory of the woman.

Almost like a spider-web that is weaved right of control, yet the story is never a boring him. Hard to follow at many times, but always well-acted, especially by Winslet.