Friday, July 27, 2007

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: a mini film review

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, manages to be heartwarming, heartwrenching, entertaining, interesting and a romantic comedy at the same time; unlike your usual romantic comedy, it does not follow a regular path from beginning to end. I was particularly pleased that the the relationship of the two main characters was developed mostly in flashback.

The film was beautifully filmed and well acted. In a supporting role Mark Ruffalo is charming and funny and I was pleasantly surprised to find Elijah Wood playing the creep rather than likeable character. Kate Winset is magnificent as the multilayered emotionally discordant, wry, charming and witty Clementine and Jim Carrey actually pulls off a heartbroken confused average guy without overacting.

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