new day. new post.
saw "eternal sunshine of a spotless mind" last night. brilliant movie. totally unlike any i've seen for a long time. . .definitely not catwoman (the horror!). it's soooo good. if you've never heard of it, it stars jim carrey and kate winslet. they play lovers who have split up and who decide to erase their memories of each other. this erasure is made possible by a procedure that the character played by tom wilkinson has developed. this movie would be really interesting for you neuroscientists out there. i was literally at the edge of my seat for much of the movie, which is a strange way to be considering that the movie is a romantic drama. the movie was that captivating for me. the way the film visualized the process of erasing the memory is totally brilliant. and i've never seen jim carrey in this light before (well, i didn't see that other amnesia movie of his. . .) and it was quite disconcerting at first. he was so. . . controlled, he hardly spoke above a whisper in the first scenes of the movie. you keep expecting him to explode any minute. kate winslet on the other hand played the exact opposite of jim carrey's character and she was at turns charming and somewhat annoying but you can clearly see how these two people could be drawn to each other. no one would ever think a jim carrey and kate winslet pairing would work, but it did and very well too.
what i really loved about the movie is that it made me think, which not very many movies do. like, what is memory? is it really just synapses in our brains which connect one neuron to another? and if i do get the option of erasing a memory or an event or a person, would i do it? and what would i erase? . . . hmmm. . . heavy stuff. . .
speaking of memory erasing. . . turns out i've been driving all over the place for who knows how long now without a license. . . really, i seem to have lost my license. i have no recollection of ever taking the darn thing out of my wallet and therefore have no idea where to start looking. let's just hope that lto doesn't throw away unclaimed one-year old license duplicates. . .
more soon. . .
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Glad to hear you like that movie too. It's one of my favorite and I can't wait for it to come out on DVD. I would also suggest seeing Napoleon Dynamite and Garden State. Sorry about making a random comment since we don't know each other. I'm freaking bored at work and have been browsing random blogs.
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