DIRECTOR- MICHEL GONDRY
WRITER-CHARLIE KAUFMAN
CAST, JIM CARREY. KATE WINSLET, KIRSTEN DUNST
EXHILARATING, ENTERTAINING, BIZARRE, COMPLEX, BEAUTIFUL, OUT OF THE BOX, CHALLENGING, STRIKING,FASCINATING, PERPLEXING, BLISTERINGLY FUNNY, THOUGHT PROVOKING,BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL, INGENIOUSLY FUNNY.
THE MOVIE CANNOT BE DESCRIBED IN BETTER WORDS THAN THIS.
Joel Barrish and Clementine, are in a troubled relationship. Clementine is impulsive, brash, loud, friendly, unfriendly, sweet, sour, lovable, doesn't want to commit or be trapped. Joel Barrish is a complete opposite, quiet, thoughtful, non impulsive, subdued, faithful, lovable and adorable. A complete contrast to what Jim carrey generally plays, loud and at times irritating character. You would simple love his under play. He in one word is- out of the world- well thats three words
So the story begins from Joel Barrish looking for a relationship, he is planning to go back to his ex girl friend Naomi, "at least naomi was 'nice', nice is good," he says and as he is boarding the train for his office he meets this over friendly girl Clementine whose colour of the hair changes with her outfit colour. That bit depicts her character rather brilliantly.And they get to talk and become friends, NOT REALISING THAT THEY WHERE ONCE IN A DEEP RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER.
The reason,Clementine, goes and gets her memory erased, of their relationship, at an erasing clinic called Lacuna Inc. When Joel comes to know about this impulsive act of his girlfriend he too follows suit. But every time he sees a beautiful moment of him with his girl friend being erased, his heart aches and he doesn't want to let her go. But since he is already in the process of 'erasement' [if thats a word, oops!!] he cannot stop it. But with a brilliant imagination of the director and the writer Charlie Kauffmann its been brilliantly depicted, [looking for another word for brilliant!!]
Joel tells his girlfriend in the memory that 'they are going to take you away.' So she tells him to hide her in that part of the memory where they wouldn't be able to find her. So he hides her in his childhood and other vivid places. Its the cat and mouse chase as they are the mouse running away from the erasers.
Finally the big TWIST, when they discover the tape about they erasing the memory of each other, they are shocked- MORAL OF THE STORY YOU CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE SAME PERSON OVER AND OVER AGAIN IF ITS TRUE LOVE. Its a brilliant thought, brilliantly executed by the director Michel Gondry.Its love story re- invented guys, so go get a copy now.
And butter on toast- It won the best original screenplay at the oscars 2004.
WRITER-CHARLIE KAUFMAN
CAST, JIM CARREY. KATE WINSLET, KIRSTEN DUNST
EXHILARATING, ENTERTAINING, BIZARRE, COMPLEX, BEAUTIFUL, OUT OF THE BOX, CHALLENGING, STRIKING,FASCINATING, PERPLEXING, BLISTERINGLY FUNNY, THOUGHT PROVOKING,BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL, INGENIOUSLY FUNNY.
THE MOVIE CANNOT BE DESCRIBED IN BETTER WORDS THAN THIS.
Joel Barrish and Clementine, are in a troubled relationship. Clementine is impulsive, brash, loud, friendly, unfriendly, sweet, sour, lovable, doesn't want to commit or be trapped. Joel Barrish is a complete opposite, quiet, thoughtful, non impulsive, subdued, faithful, lovable and adorable. A complete contrast to what Jim carrey generally plays, loud and at times irritating character. You would simple love his under play. He in one word is- out of the world- well thats three words
So the story begins from Joel Barrish looking for a relationship, he is planning to go back to his ex girl friend Naomi, "at least naomi was 'nice', nice is good," he says and as he is boarding the train for his office he meets this over friendly girl Clementine whose colour of the hair changes with her outfit colour. That bit depicts her character rather brilliantly.And they get to talk and become friends, NOT REALISING THAT THEY WHERE ONCE IN A DEEP RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER.
The reason,Clementine, goes and gets her memory erased, of their relationship, at an erasing clinic called Lacuna Inc. When Joel comes to know about this impulsive act of his girlfriend he too follows suit. But every time he sees a beautiful moment of him with his girl friend being erased, his heart aches and he doesn't want to let her go. But since he is already in the process of 'erasement' [if thats a word, oops!!] he cannot stop it. But with a brilliant imagination of the director and the writer Charlie Kauffmann its been brilliantly depicted, [looking for another word for brilliant!!]
Joel tells his girlfriend in the memory that 'they are going to take you away.' So she tells him to hide her in that part of the memory where they wouldn't be able to find her. So he hides her in his childhood and other vivid places. Its the cat and mouse chase as they are the mouse running away from the erasers.
Finally the big TWIST, when they discover the tape about they erasing the memory of each other, they are shocked- MORAL OF THE STORY YOU CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE SAME PERSON OVER AND OVER AGAIN IF ITS TRUE LOVE. Its a brilliant thought, brilliantly executed by the director Michel Gondry.Its love story re- invented guys, so go get a copy now.
And butter on toast- It won the best original screenplay at the oscars 2004.
