Jordan Marquez Presents: The Top Ten Best And Worst of The Decade 00s - Number 2 Best

Welcome back to the countdown, as we are nearly at the end of my top ten best movies of the decade.

And continuing on,

The #2 best movie of the decade:
Eternal Sunshine
of The Spotless Mind (2004)

Say all you want about Jim Carrey and his style of comedy, the guy can act damn well in dramas. That has been proven in movies like The Truman Show, The Majestic and Man on The Moon. Even if The Number 23 was a little... sucky, you got to respect him in the range he was going for. And who know he would be a hurting lovable meek in Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, a film that is so unique and new. It is the result of the collaboration with two people with brilliant minds: imaginative writer Charlie Kaufman and film auteur Michel Gondry. And this film becomes kind of a genre on its own as a science-fiction romance comedy-drama filled with big name stars involved in this indie flick.

If you know about Michel Gondry, you know of his wildly imaginative visuals through the use of practical effects and camera tricks, with minimal use of cg effects. That is why he is awesome. And you can see why in the many of the music videos he directed. But his visual effects are the best of his works, complementing the themes and design of the film. The story, like 500 Days Of Summer, is a realistic look on love and relationship between two characters, totally different and yet made for each other in a way. And like 500 Days, the narrative structure is entirely different. With a plot about erasing memories, the line of the couple's relationship starts from when they broke up to when they first met. For the main couple Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, it is a complete character reversal from the roles each usually plays. Jim, who's usually loud and wacky, is quiet and sensitive and Kate, who's sensible and polite, is wild and impulsive. And while the entire journey is about Jim's character, the outlook on both Jim's and Kate's are very fair and balanced and was never one-sided. And the chemistry between them, for it is a weird choice to have Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as lovers, are just extraordinary that you do feel they are a loving and hurting couple. The film has the good balance of being a study of a broken couple and a visual mind fest that is so weird, funny and imaginative.

Favorite Defining Moment:
(Spoiler Alert - Don't see this until you see the movie)
It is right near the end of Joel's journey, near the end of the memory erasing process and near the end of the film. For Joel, it is the last memory he has of his beloved Clementine and after many times of fighting to keep the good memories of her, he becomes accepting of this fate. And it is a truly sad and endearing scene as they both share one last fun and loving time together at a beach house and to say goodbye one last time.



Tomorrow, I will reveal THE best movie of the 00s. It all comes down to this....