DOWN WITH PANTS!

The Down With Pants! crew got the extreme fortune of taking in a matinee this afternoon and was rewarded by seeing the beautiful and heartbreaking yet oddly affirming film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Without revealing too much, the story is basically boy meets girl, they fall in love, they break up, they try to have each other erased from their memories (it sounds weird but just go with it) but things do not go as planned.

Eternal Sunshine is a movie with twists and turns and a maze of a story, but in the end what really moved me was it's dead on study of relationships and intimacy and everything that goes along with them good or bad. They really captured what makes relationships and love special. The memories of momentous events in our relationship are just as important in many cases as seemingly meaningless moments. They also did a great job of showing what relationships are like, even the totally geeky moments that only that couple could possibly understand.

Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet both gave amazing performances. I just realized that I never thought of them as anybody other than Joel or Clementine. I didn't think about them as Jim Carrey or Kate Winslet at all. This is a testament to their performances. When watching Jim Carrey I find it hard to get his other roles out of my head. It is a shame that this movie was released so early in the year because it will be overlooked when Oscar time comes around.

The Stranger's review
The Seattle Weekly's review