Not all romance movies are sunshine and rainbows — even if the title is “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The mildly mind-bending love story begins with a breakup and a reconciliation that begs more questions than it answers. Of course, it poses a query as old as time: Is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all?
For main character Clementine (Kate Winslet), the answer is most certainly the latter … at first. The heartbroken woman decides to undergo a procedure that extracts all memories of her ex Joel (Jim Carrey). Not to be outdone, he opts to follow in her footsteps, though his regret over the operation is nearly immediate and he tries hiding the memory of her within other unrelated moments of his life.
