Movie mania

For last few months, I have been almost a movie crazy person compared to what I was in college days.
I had two roommates who would start a movie almost everyday after dinner and inspite of my best promises, I would be able to accompany them till the first 20 minutes or so. Months and years later I realized that there were many good movies that I missed.
Now the situation is that I watch almost all the movies that are released, to an extent that now I keep the count and names of movies that I didn't watch.

Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
Director: Michael Gondry
Lead actors: Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey.

I watched this movie while I was in Redmond. It was one of the nights when it was snowing and our gang of friends, despite all the enthusiasm, couldn't turn this night into another adventure. So I took to bed early just casually started watching this movie.
There is something about this movie which caught my attenton. And while I was exhausted to the extent of dyign, I watche the complete movie.

StoryLine:
The story is about a process from one of the doctors, Dr Howard who can selectively erase memory from someone. This was mostly used by ex-lovers who wanted to get over each other. So Kate(Clamentine) and Jim (forgot the name of character) were together, they slowly had differences coming in between them. Kate is portrayed as a very impulsive person while Jim is very silent and reserved kind of person.

So Kate removes Jim from her memory. Now she remembers everything from the past except the scenes where Jim was present. Jim having realised what Kate has done wants to do the same. But during the time (almost overnight effort), his memory is being removed, he somehow revisits all the good memories they had together.

During this time, he realises that his life wouldn't be better if the memories were removed. But since he is asleep during this time, he cannot do anything other than wait and watch while the memories are being removed from his mind. After that some other patient of the doctor realises that even her memory had been removed and wants to tell all the people whose memory has been erased selectively about it. She send al of them a sound tape of the time when they were narrating all the incidents in their life which they wanted erased.

Kate and Jim also get the tape. What happens after that is something which I wouldn't like to narrate here. But one thing I can confirm is that the ending is a nice one and the steps to it are equally nice.

Performances: This was one of the best performances of Jim I have seen so far. This may be because, being mostly recognised as a comedian, this kind of role has probably never been played by him. But he deals with it very well.

The conversations are one thing to watch out for. Very sweet and nice and so are the show of Jim in his dream.