Sad to see no one really gives a shit about Jim Carrey anymore. The Ace Venturas, Liar, Liar, and The Mask will always be classic. Say he can't do serious? The Truman show (hands down). Now I think the not-quite-comedy/not-quite-drama (believe they call that "quirky") Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is his best showing. Thought-prevoking, abstract, and straight-up cerebral. The scenes where Joel (an overburdened and mousy Jim Carrey) is getting his memories of Clementine (aka Tangerine aka a blue-haired Kate Winslet aka Dr. Aquafresh) erased are well-planned to maximize the confusion, loss, and love in Joel's head. Plus shouts to Anthony Green and the boys in Circa Survive, whose Eternal Sunshine-inspired album Juturna fucking rocks. Get at both..cuz if I could die right now...
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
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