Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#37 in my movie challenge for the year was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I both admired and enjoyed this film. Jim Carrey’s performance was remarkably restrained, and was perhaps the best I’ve seen from him. Winslet was just as strong, and never once did I question her American accent. A friend of mine derided Kirsten Dunst’s performance, but I think she did a fine job of playing an annoying, immature person who hasn’t learned from her mistakes. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman also wrote Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. Both of those were technically good, though I didn’t much like them. They were about being up in one’s head, and detached from emotion. This film did an admirable job of being intellectual as well as emotional.