VALENTINE'S DAY 2008

BEST VALENTINE'S DAY MOVIE
"Random thoughts for Valentine's Day... Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." Boy, Joel Barish (Jim Carey) meets girl again. Boy almost loses girl, again. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Girl, Clementine (Kate Winslet) gets her memory of boy erased with the help of Dr. Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson). Then, boy retaliates and erases his memory of her. It really isn't this complicated, perhaps a bit hard to track upon first viewing, but the bottom line is boy and girl get a second chance to fall in love with each other all over again, depite how it may or may not end. "Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks". This is one of my favorite movies. Along with the aforementioned, the cast includes Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, and Elija Wood. This film is almost magical in the way it suspends reality. Check out Lacuna's website, the company that designed the "memory eraser". "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil. Found it in my Bartlett's". Would you want to forget your past, or would you want to remember it all, good and bad? Happy Valentine's Day!

Rating: Must see film, gets easier to track after watching more than once. LOVED it!