Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Number 36 on IMDb’s Top 250
On a Valentines Day, Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) feels the impulse of going to Montauk instead of working. After spending the cold day on the beach, he meets Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) on the train station and they develop a crush on each other. Joel and Clementine do not know that they were mates in the past. Joel finds out that Clementine has erased his memory from her mind when they broke up with the help of the Lacuna, Inc. a company that erases unwanted memories, Joel then decides to erase Clementine from his memories. However, halfway though his erasing process, Joel becomes astonished when he realizes that he still loves Clementine and he does not want to lose her and begins fighting to keep the memories of their moments together instead. Hilarity ensues.
Trivia: The movie is based on the following quote from an Alexander Pope poem:
On a Valentines Day, Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) feels the impulse of going to Montauk instead of working. After spending the cold day on the beach, he meets Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) on the train station and they develop a crush on each other. Joel and Clementine do not know that they were mates in the past. Joel finds out that Clementine has erased his memory from her mind when they broke up with the help of the Lacuna, Inc. a company that erases unwanted memories, Joel then decides to erase Clementine from his memories. However, halfway though his erasing process, Joel becomes astonished when he realizes that he still loves Clementine and he does not want to lose her and begins fighting to keep the memories of their moments together instead. Hilarity ensues.Trivia: The movie is based on the following quote from an Alexander Pope poem:
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
The memory-erasing company, Lacuna Inc., takes its name from the Latin word meaning a cavity, hollow, or dip, especially a pool or pond. Transfiguratively, lacuna comes to mean a gap, deficiency, or loss. The term "lacunar infarct" refers to a stroke that involves a small area of the brain responsible for a specific function, or even a specific memory. Additionally, in papyrology (the study of ancient manuscripts) a lacuna is a hole where part of the text is missing, and which can sometimes be re-constructed.
This is really a good movie, Both Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play against type. Carrey plays a shy man who is slightly ackward with women. Winslet plays the fun loving young woman who loves to take chances and is very impulsive even down to coloring her hair blue, or green, or orange, or whatever color she feels like at the time.
This is really a good movie, Both Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play against type. Carrey plays a shy man who is slightly ackward with women. Winslet plays the fun loving young woman who loves to take chances and is very impulsive even down to coloring her hair blue, or green, or orange, or whatever color she feels like at the time.
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I agree with you Will. It was a pretty good movie. I like that Jim Carey didn't go all wacky on us in this one. I like it when he plays the innocent man. It was a quirky movie though. Kind of "Being John Malkovich" weird.
I thought this was a great movie. And I liked Being John Malkovich too so I guess I like quirky movies.
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