“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a unique love story in which the lovers erase their memories of each other.

Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) discovers that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has erased him from her memory. Out of desperation he asks Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson) to perform this procedure on him.

After the memories progressively disappear Joel realizes that he doesn’t want Clementine gone from his memory forever. His memories of her and him together are nestled deep in his brain, and he tries to escape the procedure while unconscious.

But as Dr. Mierzwiak and his assistants (Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo) viciously stalk every memory while Joel desperately tries to hold on to them.

This “backward” and weird love story is intense and confusing but writer Michel Gondry and director Charlie Kaufman somehow tie it together at the end to make it an incredible story with the ability to make you walk away speechless.

Jim Carrey’s role doesn’t fit the “usual” characters that he is known for. He plays more of the “average” middle-age man in search for happiness.

While Kate Winslet takes on the more radical role playing a more diverse and outgoing character.

At first I thought that the reversed roles would hurt the context of the storyline, but watching the two actors and their different roles only adds to this intense dream you enter.

You realize how talented these actors are and I think that it helps make the movie a big success.