Hello guys.. am back again.. this post is dedicated to all the hopeless romantics such as myself about a movie I saw recently.. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
First things first, kudos to the script writer and the director / editor for an amazing well written movie. Moving on.. spoiler alert..I am giving out the detail of entire movie; however I insist it would not spoil your experience when you watch it.
The theme of the movie is very simple.. some relationships are never meant to be.. looking back.. but no matter how it ends.. you are always glad you were a part of it and would repeat it because the reason you both were attracted to each other still stands. The movie begin with Jim Carrey suddenly taking a detour from way to work to visit Montauk, NY. This event is inexplicable and he does it with no prior plans. When in Montauk, he meets Kate Winslet and they get along like a house on fire. Jim is reserved and man of few words while Kate is a babbler.. that very same evening they go for an overnight date to Charles river (frozen during winter) and spend the night lying on the frozen river and talking. It amazes the audience as to how they have the chemistry going on with so much diversity in their thoughts and behaviours.
The movie goes to a flashback... Jim is all in tears and talking to his sister and brother in law that Kate is not picking his calls or even recognising him.. turns out she underwent a brain procedure that made her forget all thoughts and events related to Jim. Jim is devastated and simply cannot come to terms with the loss of Kate's presence in his life and decides to undergo the procedure himself. The following 90 minutes of the movie is Jim going through each and every thought involving Kate and himself in reverse chronology and it appears to the audience that someone is erasing his memories about her. It so happens that after more than half of the memories are erased, Jim realises that there was a deeper reason why he was in love with Kate and wiping her memories will not help him.. he wanted to maintain atleast one memory so that he can remember her all his life.. but its too late.. things have gone beyond his control. He tries hard to subvert the machine, but it turns out that its gone well beyond his control. He wakes up the next day having absolute no memory of Kate, except a message in his subconscious that she wanted to meet him in Montauk. That brings us to the beginning of the movie..
They return from their overnight date and find 2 cassettes bearing their name and upon hearing them, they find all about hating each other and having undergone the painful procedure. While they discuss in the hallway that if they continue dating this is gonna happen again, the movie ends with Jim saying to Kate that even if the relationship is doomed to fail, he would still wanna try. The movie shows 2 people who should not have been together in the first place for they were so different from each other.. so wide was that chasm that it made one of them to take an extreme step of going for a brain procedure. When all that was done, they still could not forget why they were attracted to each other and when situation gave them another chance to meet, they rebuild on the same chemistry.
There are several things that you would not like about your partners, but you would be surprised to know that you would miss them like hell for those same things you hated them for... when they are gone. Accept the shortcomings in your relationships and still work on building it with what you have, for there is nothing like a perfect relationship :)
So long....
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