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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is a mind-bending romantic sci-fi drama starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. This unforgettable film follows Joel and Clementine, two former lovers who undergo a medical procedure to erase each other from their memories—only to realize that love is not so easy to forget. Directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman, this Academy Award-winning story beautifully explores love, loss, and the power of memory.

If you’re a fan of deep emotional storytelling, psychological romance, and unique sci-fi concepts, this film is a must-watch.

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00:00Start of the story a man whose name is Joel Barish wakes up and goes outside, sit in a car, and start driving.
00:06He is explaining about his random thoughts, how he ditched the work that day.
00:10It is the year 2004, and it's the Valentine's Day.
00:13He took a train to Mountac, he did not know why though.
00:17He also had to get his car fixed.
00:19He spends his time here and there, throwing rocks, writing something in notebook.
00:23Joel is looking to meet someone nice and good.
00:26Later, he is sitting in a cafe, where he encounter a woman putting something in her drink, but gets back to writing.
00:32Inside the train, he is approached by a woman.
00:35They are going on the same location.
00:37Women wonders if she ever seen him before, then she realized that he was at the cafe.
00:42Joel looks like a mature man, meanwhile, this girl a bit extrovert and would not stop talking.
00:47In a moment, she starts to introduce herself by telling her name as Clementine.
00:51He believed that her name is pretty, and tells her that it means merciful.
00:54She contradict him by revealing that she is not that great.
00:58She yelled at him and telling that she does not like nice guys, but later apologize as well.
01:03It feels like she is too much for Joel to handle.
01:06Joel tells her that he's got some things to do, like writing, to which she leaves, but not before punching him.
01:12He later sees her and offers her a ride.
01:15She asks if she's being a stalker, but he says he does not mind.
01:19Before going away she asks him to come over and have a drink.
01:22There she tells him that this drink will make the seduction part easier, but laughs it off.
01:26She want to know more about him, but they're nothing much other than work and writing here and there.
01:31Now she want to marry the nice guy Joel, where she explains how they will go on a picnic.
01:35Joel proceed to leave the premises, where she tell him to give her a call if he could, which would be nice.
01:41Joes does not waste any time and goes inside his house to call her.
01:45They start to have lovely conversation, where she ask him to go to a place next night.
01:49They go on a silent beautiful place, where they both lay down and talk about the stars.
01:54Not too long after, we find her sleeping in a car, where Joel is driving.
01:59She asks Joel to take her to his place for sleep, so she decide to take her toothbrush from her house.
02:04Immediately, a random guy comes to Joel's door and ask him if he can help him.
02:09In the next scene we see Joel is crying while listening to a sad song.
02:13Aichi drive his car to a place and walks in, where he is being followed by two men.
02:17This was really odd to see.
02:20After picking up a few mail letters, he goes inside and takes a mysterious pill and gulp it down with some water.
02:25It starts to take effect not after too long.
02:28Two men arrives in his apartment after he is knocked by the medicine.
02:32Joel starts to hallucinate that he is talking to his friend, while he is in deep sleep.
02:36We see a flashback, where Jo is explaining to his friend that one day he went up to Clementine with a gift.
02:42At her workplace she act like she does not know him anymore, to which Joel thinks she is punishing him.
02:47After listening to Joel's sad story, he present him with a card in which it was mentioned that she had erased her memory,
02:53and prohibit anyone to tell Jo about their relationship in future.
02:57He goes to the doctor while showing the card to him, but doctor clearly denies to tell him anything since it is confidential information.
03:04He mention this to his friend while panicking.
03:06He is very frustrated due to this unknown event.
03:10Joel decide to talk to the doctor again, but not about Clementine, but himself.
03:14Doctor tell him to collect everything he owns that was related to Clementine.
03:18After the mapping of those things are done, his assistants will then proceed to erase all the memory he had with Clementine.
03:24Hence a fresh life for him.
03:26Next day, he is back to the doctor and meets Stan Fink, who is a skilled technician.
03:31They record the vital information regarding Clementine and himself along with his legal confession.
03:37Doctor explains that after the procedure he would feel if his relationship was just a dream.
03:42They get started with the mapping, where he looks at the gifts given by Clementine.
03:46We get to know that this is just his previous memories, while he was in a deep sleep back at his house and in the presence of associates.
03:54He gets to the memory, where he is living with Clementine.
03:57Joel looks a bit angry at her because she is drunk.
03:59He thinks she is careless and probably spend the night sleeping with someone else because that how she make friends.
04:05Right after, he realized he spoke too much and apologized, but she is not there anymore.
04:10He is in a dream, while associates are on the verge to take all the memories away.
04:15While following Clementine on the street, he start to hear blurry noises from the associates.
04:20One guy is talking about Clementine, since she is his girlfriend now.
04:24Everything can be heard by Joel.
04:25He is back to a memory, where they are enjoying Chinese food.
04:28Meanwhile, Joel is figuring out if this is a dream or real.
04:32He does something to get Clementine's attention, but it does not work out.
04:36In one memory Clementine asked to have a baby, to which Joel criticized if she is ready to be a mother.
04:42They start to argue, which grows bigger and bigger, until someone rings the doorbell.
04:47It was the girlfriend of one of the associates.
04:49They steal a drink from Joel's house and proceed to drink and enjoy.
04:53While, Joel is having cute moment with Clementine.
04:55They are back to a moment, where Clementine was drinking a little extra and acting repulsive.
05:01Which Joel hated with all his heart.
05:04Right after Joel hears the associate, whose name is Patrick, calls her girl.
05:08Who is Clementine without memories and decide to leave, because she needs some help.
05:12Patrick comes at the Clementine's house, where she is feeling like she is not herself anymore.
05:16So they both decide to go Montauk, because she insists him.
05:20He calls his associate and take a leave for the day, while he picks out one of Joel's gifts and gives it to her.
05:26After seeing it, she admires him.
05:28Back in the memories, Clementine explains when she was a little child.
05:32She had a little doll called Clementine, who she usually would keep yelling at that she is ugly.
05:37She felt if she could transform her, she could be beautiful too, to which Joel start to kiss her.
05:43We also see a memory where Clementine is being taken away from Joel and he start to yell.
05:47Everything starts to forward in his brain, while he hears lots different noises from all the people.
05:52He hold her hand and walk into an unknown place and beg the doctor to wake him up.
05:57Slowly, he starts to be aware that he is in his bed.
06:00He is back to a dream, where he asks Clem to help him wake up.
06:03He does something and see that it worked.
06:06She suggests him to take her away and hide her somewhere, so that associates won't be able to erase his memory.
06:11He dreams of him being a child, where he see Clem as his Aunt Hemlin and dream about his mother.
06:17He does some acts that he used to do back in childhood.
06:20Meanwhile, one of the associates finds out a problem with the machine and it is going worse.
06:24He does not know how to fix it, so he ends up calling Dr. Howard.
06:28Doctor decide to come there and fix the issue himself.
06:31Back in the dream, Clem tells him to remember her, but Joel talked to Clem inside his mind, being jealous of her new real-life boyfriend Patrick.
06:39Doctor comes inside Joel's house and proceed to work on fixing his case, where Joes suddenly start to drown since Doctor deleted the files from there.
06:47He also induce him with a sedative.
06:49While all the memories are being deleted, he tried to save Clem from being erased.
06:54He again disappeared from the map.
06:56Next, Joel would find him in his childhood memories, where he was bullied once and gets bullied again.
07:02They go back to his house and changes the places to find Clem.
07:05He is back in his house and the next moment he is back into the beach covered with snow all around.
07:11Where Clem and Joel are playing and having fun and she disappears again.
07:15Doctor is really puzzled by this new mystery that he had found and looking for an answer.
07:19There her assistant ask him if he likes to hear quotes, to which he smiles and they start to talk about it.
07:25She calls him sweetheart and things starts to unfold, where she end up kissing him.
07:29Even though Doctor is hesitant, he goes near her and talk to her.
07:33Suddenly Doctor's wife comes and caught his husband red-handed.
07:37She leaves after telling the girl that she can have the Doctor.
07:40Doctor reveals to her that they had something in the past too, but she wanted to forget it so the procedure was done on her as well.
07:46We are back to Joel's dreams, where he asks if Clem wanted to go on a date with him, but she still disappear right after.
07:53Doctor's assistant looks for the tapes in the offices and confirms the obvious.
07:57We see Joel explaining how they met the first time, he was sitting on a stair and gets introduced to Clem.
08:03He acts introvert as usual, where she borrows a chicken and start to devour it.
08:07Their talk turns into friendship and they come to an empty house.
08:11They break into it and start to explore some drinks, but not too long after the house collapses.
08:15This is also one of his memories.
08:18In the end they kiss and he tell her that he loves her, before seeing all the flashes of dear Clementine.
08:24It is the morning, associate takes off helmet out of Joel's head and it seems like they finally did it.
08:29He slowly opens his eyes, looks at the window and feels very tired.
08:33Later on, we are met with the same scene from the beginning.
08:37Joel misses his work and take the train with a gut feeling.
08:40He is met with Peter, while Clementine is picking her toothbrush.
08:43She walks back in with a paper, there the associate called Mary explains everything about their memory wipe.
08:49Both of them were shocked to hear all the confessions and Joe's opens the door, to which Clem leaves.
08:55Clem starts to cry back in her house, but not too long after she drives back to Joel's apartment.
09:00She comes into his apartment, where Joel is also hearing his own recording of confession.
09:05This makes them emotional and Joel apologized to her.
09:07They don't know what to do next, it was too much for them to grasp.
09:11She also hears some criticism about her from the recording and decide to leave, even though Joel looks sorry.
09:17Immediately, Joel stops her from walking away.
09:20She explains how she is a big mess, but Joel only says one word, okay, as if he was okay, with any outcome in the future just to be with her.
09:28Which makes Clem cry and later they are both seen playing inside the snow in the end.
09:37Let's see.
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