Using what he knows about her life and attraction to Joel, Patrick has unethically wormed his way into her bed. ![]() Patrick’s tongue loosens, and he confesses that he fell in love with Clementine while zapping her memories of Joel. ![]() In one, in Joel’s bedroom, Stan and Patrick - later joined by another office assistant and Stan’s girlfriend, Mary (Kirsten Dunst) - raid Joel’s liquor and start to party even as the procedure continues. The movie now divides into two realities. Mierzwiak traced the previous day, the brain-scanning device searches and destroys each memory one by one. Using a map of Clementine’s presence in Joel’s brain that Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), he impulsively decides to undergo the procedure, too.Īfter taking a knockout pill at night, Joel falls into a deep sleep while two of Mierzwiak’s assistants, Stan (Mark Ruffalo) and Patrick (Elijah Wood), enter his apartment in Yonkers and strap on memory-erasing headgear. Rushing to see the inventor of this process, Dr. Barish knows his relationship with live-in girlfriend Clementine (Winslet) is unraveling, but he gets the shock of his life when he learns that she has had her memory of him completely erased from her mind. The references to the mind and brain in the preceding paragraphs are apt because the movie basically takes place in the mind of Joel Barish (Carrey). ![]() Focus Features should enjoy above-average box office for this spotless confection. The film will appeal to Jim Carrey fans and women drawn by Kate Winslet, but there will be a strong core audience of young and older adults who can’t wait to see the latest Kaufman brain-tickler. The third act works like a charm and pulls all his themes, characters and conflicts together beautifully. 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi': THR's 1983 ReviewĮternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not only his most accessible and romantic screenplay, it’s his most complete.
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