Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: 2004 IMDB: 8.4 Cast: Jim Carrey (as Joel), Kate Winslet (as Clementine) The movie starts with the first time Clementine and Joel meets. Then what happened seems blurry in Joel's mind. They fight and the next day, Joel goes to the store where Clementine works. Clementine doesn't recognise him. Soon he finds out she had a procedure (something like lobotomy that only makes her forget the memories about him) and he decides to forget too. While they're erasing his memories he realizes he doesn't want to forget and tries to save the memories but he can't make it happen. In the end, they meet again without their memories. Personal Thoughts: It was wonderful. I've just finished watching the movie and it's one of the best movies I've seen lately. Clementine has this interesting personality, she's energetic, unordinary, sometimes mean but without being aware of it. Joel is the complete opposite of Clementine. He tries to be nice to people, he's shy, I think he has deep thoughts, unlike Clementine. She says everything out loud and that's what makes her an open book. I relate some things to myself from both of them. Even if they have opposite personalities, they fit each other. The idea of them finding each other again even after they've erased their memories was a pretty cool idea. I really liked the ending of the movie. It was sweet, weird (in a good way), complicating and great. I hope you guys will like it too. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/quotes
Truman Show: 1998 IMDB: 8.1 Cast: Jim Carrey (as Truman), Ed Harris (as Christof), Laura Linney (as Meryl Burbank and Hannah Gill) Truman is a regular guy who goes to wark everyday, comes home from work, talks with his neighbours and lives an organised life. Maybe too organised. At college he has a crush on a girl. The girl says she can't talk to him because of some reasons. Later we discover the reason is because she doesn't want to be one of the peope that fools him everyday. She tells Truman that he lives in a made up world and nothing he sees is real, it's just a reality TV show which he's the main character in. He starts to think about it. He recognizes the exact pattern of his life, like the same order of people passsing the street everyday and how he can never get out of the town. It's the story of how he tries to get out to discover and see the reaity outside. Personal Thoughts: It's a great movie. I really like Jim Carrey and almost watched all of his movies. I first watced the move in a TOK (theory of knowledge) class. It made me question the things as we define as "facts" are really the truth or how do we actually know what truth is. The answer is we cannot possibly know it. We can just assume or choose to believe the things we have most evidence of are the truth. The movie is about how Truman discoveres his own truth. After I watced the move I got a strange feeling. I get that feeling in most of Jim Carrey's movies like Eternal Sushine of the Spotless Mind, Yes Man etc. It's just a great move, I think everyone should watch it sometime. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/quotes
Leon the Professional: 1994 IMDB: 8.6 Cast: Natalie Portman (as Mathilda), Jean Reno (as Leon) The movie is about a little girl named Mathilda and her adventures with Leon. Leon is a professional assassin and he takes care of Mathilda after her whole family is murdered. They live together and Mathilda insists on learning how to be an assassin. They start to work together and form an unusual bond. personal thoughts: I tink it's an unusual and sweet movie. Mathilda revels the kindness in Leon. The relationship between Leon and Mathilda is like a family. It's a bit wierd that she keeps saying she's in love with Leon but I don't really think she knows what love is since she is really young. She is a young girl that grew up so fast because of the life she has to live. I recommend this movie to everyone because it's sweet, tragic, heartbreaking and even funny sometimes.
IMDB: 6.5 Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (as Allen Ginsberg), Dane DeHaan (as Lucien Carr), Michael C. Hall (as David Kammerer), Ben Foster (as William S. Burroughs) and Jack Huston (as Jack Kerouac) It's a biographical movie of Allen Ginsberg's life when he first gets into the University of Columbia. He first starts as an inexperienced but talented freshman and soon meets Lucien Carr who is impressive, handsome, revolutionary, rowdy. Ginsberg gets impressed by Carr's thoughts about a revolution in literature. Soon, Ginsberg gets to meet Carr's friend (ex-lover and stalker), a literature professor David Kammerer. He finds out that Carr only uses his thoughts and makes him write all of his term papers to stay in Columbia. In return, Kammerer wants his love but Carr doesn't give that to him because of some uncertain reasons related to their past (it's not completely mentioned in the movie) Ginsberg doesn't seem to mind it but later he gets annoyed by Kammerer following Carr. The reason why is that he falls in love with Carr. They, (Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs) write poems that might be considered as "immoral" and that doesn't fit into classical literature rules. After some time, Lucien Carr realises Allen Ginsberg's in love for him and makes him write his term papers instead. He runs off and tries to join merchant marine with Jack Kerouac without saying goodbye to Allen but he finds out David's still following him like he always did since he was a child. He stabs (and perhaps drowns) him and goes to jail. Lucien asks Allen to write his deposition for him but after digging up the whole story, Allen rejects to do it and writes a fictional but perhaps also a little bit truthful story called "the night in question"
personal thoughts about the movie: The movie is a bit strange because of the unknown facts like Lucien's love life, Lucien's reason of killing David, things that have happened in the past between David and Lucien etc. but still, I liked the movie because of the revolutionary thoughts and characters, especially Lucien. Dane DeHaan was a perfect fit for his character and so was Daniel Radcliffe. I personally love both of them. I made a small research about Lucien Carr because after I watched the movie, I was a bit curious about the reason why he killed David and stuff but unfortunately I couldn't find much about him. In an interview with Dane DeHaan, he said that since there wasn't much record about Lucien Carr, he had to read Allen Ginsberg's diary to find out more about him. That's another reason why I liked the movie. It told a lot about an unclear character that a lot of us wouldn't know if we didn't watch the movie. I was literally in love with Lucien Carr after this movie. It's strange to not know if he was gay or not because he had romantic relationships with a bunch of guys but we still don't know if he was just using them or really loved them. The movie makes you think, and for me, that's something I look for in a good movie.
