Um... yes... hooray... I think...

And on to our second film of the evening, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Now, I really, really enjoyed this film, but for the life of me I couldn't quantify exactly why.

The basic plot - if those words can be used - is that Joel (Jim Carey) finds out that his ex girlfriend Celementine (Kate Winslet) has her memories of him and their entire relationship erased from her memory. He decides to have the same procedure, but in the course of going back through the memories of the relationship remembers why he hfell for her in the first place. Sounds simple? Oh how little you know.

I thought the acting was superb all round, especially from Carey and Winslet (and also a great supporting cast including Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst and Tom Wilkinson), and the camera work and clever use of effects to simulate the erasure were also excellent, it's just that the whole thing was more than a little weird. I don't know what Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry (the writer and director respectively) are/were on, but if I could get a few grams of it to help me finish my masters, that'd be tops.

4 and a half heads scratched in confusion.