(2004) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind SCIENCE-FICTION/ FANTASY/ DRAMA

Co-written and directed by Michel Gondry which in order for this film to be fully appreciated, one has to first get through the 18 minute introduction and then another 13 minutes into the set up as well as absorb it since that's what I had to do was rewatching the first 31 minutes at least 3 times because there really isn't any plot to speak about. Rather than telling a story or engaging it's viewers, it places viewers into a persons life in the first 31 minutes without explaining anything in between. After 31 minutes in we find that we are being introduced to a machine of a facility that have the ability to 'erase' persons bad memories or persons by looking into a persons brain by a X-Ray machine specifically for the brain and deleting any memory the client want to eradicate. Somewhere after the 31 minute introduction, viewers assume that the Jim Carrey character as Joel with his abnormal mental state got his live-in-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) to be very angry at him motivating her to wipe out anything to do with him without considering the fact that Joel is going to forget about why she went along with this in the first place. Joel in turn does the same about her and the film switches back and forth between what is happening in their current life as to what happened in the past as they intermingle with each others lives for as far back as when they were kids. The movie also stars, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, David Cross and Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Mierzwiak. It's described as a scientific thinking film considering a 'what if' possibility almost in the same magnitude as "12 Monkeys" and "Total Recall"- the non-action aspect of it. Fascinating but very bizarre. Winner of an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay of two nominations.