After being informed that an ex-lover (Kate Winslet) has had him removed from her memory, Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) decides to remove her from his. Midway through the procedure he changes his mind.
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Though Charlie Kaufman’s concepts can be rather far out, they are always grounded in intense emotional reality. Even as things get crazier and crazier, the audience is still able to understand the yearnings and insecurities that are guiding the characters and their decisions, even if we would rather not admit it. Honestly, who wouldn’t want to erase a painful experience from their memory? Well thanks to a wonderful new process called filmmaking, these questions can now cease to be hypotheticals. By combining Kaufman’s wonderful script with Michel Gondry’s ingenious, low-fi visuals and the cast’s raw performances, viewers are able to literally watch memories disappear before their eyes. So what if a few good memories get lost in the shuffle? It’s only a movie right? This isn’t real! But then why do I have tears in my eyes?
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