Love is sometimes overrated. All the lovey-dovey scenes and perfect happy endings in movies are so cliched, yet we love them. Nowadays, most relationships turn sour owing to many reasons. What if you had the option of wiping the entire memory of that one person you want to forget?
Joel Barish, a reserved, shy man starts dating Clementine Kruckzynski, a free-spirited, overly joyous young woman who has a thing for experimenting with hair colour (which changes dramatically through the movie). They have their share of ups and downs but later, both get fed up of each other's differences and take drastic measures.
Clementine hears about this place where they have the ability to wipe out any person from your mind. So, she signs up for the program and has Joel removed from her memories. Joel tries talking to her during work but she doesn't remember him anymore. After the horrible disappointment, he crashes at his friend's place where he is told about the memory erasing institution. Heart broken and utterly ruined, he decides to do the same and visits this clinic.
After being registered he is asked to speak out all the memories of Clementine and collect everything that is associated with her at his place. As the memory erasing process begins, Joel in his mind tries his best to keep up with the erasing. But, as they're halfway through it, he starts having second thoughts. So, the Joel in his mind takes different memories of Clementine to memories that she isn't a part of (like his childhood) and tries to outwit the sequence of memory erasing.
While all this is happening in Joel's head, the outside world isn't doing any better than he is. Secrets are revealed and things turn messy as the memory erasing process starts turning faulty. Does Joel actually succeed in keeping Clementine's memory or does technology outwit the mind?
Truly the inception of rom-com, this movie has many timelines and needs to be followed precisely, otherwise its not going to make any sense to you. It can get extremely confusing at times, but the beginning and ending of the movie clears everything out and leaves you wondering as to how you couldn't figure that out! All the scenes happening in Joel's head are the most entertaining and most important parts of the movie. If I had to choose one, it would be when he figures out a way to outsmart the system and starts running with the memory of Clementine to other places in his brain. Pretty clever thing to do, considering he was unconscious. A different concept for a romedy film, I would give it 3 and 1/2 stars.
Joel Barish, a reserved, shy man starts dating Clementine Kruckzynski, a free-spirited, overly joyous young woman who has a thing for experimenting with hair colour (which changes dramatically through the movie). They have their share of ups and downs but later, both get fed up of each other's differences and take drastic measures.
Clementine hears about this place where they have the ability to wipe out any person from your mind. So, she signs up for the program and has Joel removed from her memories. Joel tries talking to her during work but she doesn't remember him anymore. After the horrible disappointment, he crashes at his friend's place where he is told about the memory erasing institution. Heart broken and utterly ruined, he decides to do the same and visits this clinic.
After being registered he is asked to speak out all the memories of Clementine and collect everything that is associated with her at his place. As the memory erasing process begins, Joel in his mind tries his best to keep up with the erasing. But, as they're halfway through it, he starts having second thoughts. So, the Joel in his mind takes different memories of Clementine to memories that she isn't a part of (like his childhood) and tries to outwit the sequence of memory erasing.
While all this is happening in Joel's head, the outside world isn't doing any better than he is. Secrets are revealed and things turn messy as the memory erasing process starts turning faulty. Does Joel actually succeed in keeping Clementine's memory or does technology outwit the mind?
Truly the inception of rom-com, this movie has many timelines and needs to be followed precisely, otherwise its not going to make any sense to you. It can get extremely confusing at times, but the beginning and ending of the movie clears everything out and leaves you wondering as to how you couldn't figure that out! All the scenes happening in Joel's head are the most entertaining and most important parts of the movie. If I had to choose one, it would be when he figures out a way to outsmart the system and starts running with the memory of Clementine to other places in his brain. Pretty clever thing to do, considering he was unconscious. A different concept for a romedy film, I would give it 3 and 1/2 stars.
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