I SAW A FILM just now called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Jim Carrey meets an American Kate Winslett who far too pushily ensconces herself into his life ~ I'm thinking aren't alarm bells supposed to be ringing? For him they are not. Then all too drastically she rips herself away. Rips him off. Rips him apart.
He goes to a Memory Erasure Clinic ~ and here all goes blinko. Like a k-dream the insanity of real people and a fantasy of memory become twined in a psychotic-like paranoia. He's unconscious in bed, at home, undergoing "treatment". At the same time, one "therapist" is leaving, with Carrey's memories of Winslett's Clementine character in a box ~ photos, journal entries, all those things. To bring them round and use them to give her gifts ungiven; and spin lines she's already heard. Creepo!Strange how one film, not a joint, nor a line of ketamine, nor too many pipes on crack (things I've given up) ~ just a crazy movie ~ can slice in, flip out so I'm questioning whether I'm losing it again.
Most odd...
I personally think it's the best Jim Carrey movie I ever saw. It is an odd film, but one that makes you think and see things from a much different-than-normal perspective. It's got British Kate too, playing an American again, and as always she is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE ME THAT MOVIE AND AM GLAD YOU SAW IT!
Definitely a whacked out movie but I liked it - so did my daughter. I usually can't stand Carey.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the film and I have to say I don't particularly like Jim Carey I think everything he does is wacky.
ReplyDeleteWAT: I just don't get why she had to be American... did you find her accent spot-on? That's the 1950s-female film star school-marmy WASPy accent Brits always tend to do when imitating Americans
ReplyDeleteJEANNIE: he gets rather rubberyfaced in most of his films dunne?
AKELAMALU: you might like this one... it's not comedy by any means and odd enough to have made me feel seriously strange... the experiences in the film remind me of things that have happened when I was out of it on tripping drugs...
Nah you're not losing it, twas a weird movie but vaguely compelling.
ReplyDeleteI love this movie and am always moved by the wanting to erase our memories, probably because I've spent a long chunk of my life wanting to do just that...great post!
ReplyDeleteIt was a very odd film. I liked Jim Carrey in it and I don't usually like him. But I struggled to make sense of it. She had her memory erased first, didn't she?
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