Bring me Sunshine - Eternal sunshine of a spotless Mind By Lee Cassanell

Director Michel Gondry Main Cast: Jim Carrey - Joel Barrish Kate Winslet - Clementine Kruczynski Kirsten Dunst - Mary Elijah Wood - Patrick Tom Wilkinson - Dr Howard Mierzwiak "It's such a fine line between clever..and stupid" David St Hubbins (Spinal Tap)

I believe that it's much easier to make people laugh than it is to make them cry and if you look back over all the films you've seen in your life, I'll wager that the ones you shed tears over are your secret favourites. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of those movies and although I wasn't quite blubbing like a stood up school girl, one or two droplets of emotion did manage to escape from my watery eyes. It's hard to describe what the film's about as it 's fairly complex but this is the basic storyline.

Joel ( Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) are two lovers who break up after a pointless argument and decide that the only way they can truly get over each other and start again is by under going a procedure that erases their minds of all memory of their past relationship.

However, while he is asleep and the procedure is underway Joel takes a journey into his consciousness, reliving all the moments he spent with Clementine until he eventually realises that he doesn't want to forget about her no matter how painful some of the events he remembers might be. To say this film is original is the understatement of the millennium. Writer Charlie Kauffman ( Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has managed to turn the idea of a Romance movie on its head by examining how people in relationships have different perceptions of the same event and that at the end of the day, the good memories always far outweigh the bad ones.

The cast is excellent, Kate Winslet give a career best performance as the Kooky multi-colour haired Clementine and Jim Carrey as the hapless Joel is just as good as ( if not better) than he was in the Trueman Show.

The supporting cast of Dunst, Wood, and Wilkinson are all top notch but it's the two leads who take all the glory. It 's a brilliant, brilliant film, better then anything I've seen this year (including Kill Bill Volume 2) and I reckon anyone who's ever been in Love will embrace this movie like a long lost brother. So take my advice, grab a box of tissues and get your hides down to the local cinema and see this modern masterpiece before it disappears from the big screen forever. Rating: Blinding

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