I just watched this movie tonight and although Jim Carey is doing really well as a dramatic actor I have to say that, while his acting was done well, the way the movie was pulled off wasn't that great.

***Spoilers listed below***




If any of you are familiar with the concept of it, Jim Carey falls in love with this woman who is slightly unstable and their relationship begins to stagnate. They start hating each other and she breaks up with him. She goes to a doctor who specializes in removing unwanted memories so she has all memories of Jim Carey removed from her brain. He runs into her the next day and she acts like she doesn't know him because, well, she doesn't.

He finds out what she had done and decides to have the same procedure done because he can't bare the pain of losing his love. The process of removing the memories is what most of the movie focuses on. Jim Carey is basically living inside of each memory as it is being erased. This is very trippy because things start to change and fade as he is reliving the memory and he doesn't know what is happening. Memories collide with each other causing some very trippy experiences.

Then he realizes what is happening, that all of his memories of her are being erased and he discovers half way through the proceedure that he made a big mistake and doesn't want to forget her. But being that he is unconscious he can't tell them to stop so he starts trying to hide themselves in other memories so the doctors can't find them. This is where it gets really weird. He hides in his childhood, in things that evoked strong emotions like fear, shame, humiliation. But each time, the doctors find him and continue the erasure.

He gives up during his last remaining memory of her, which is the first time they met. He begins to reenact the memory the way he lived it the first time and she says, "Why don't you come back and do something different. Make up a new memory."

So he goes back to her. She tells him to meet her in a certain place and then it all crumbles apart and he wakes up in reality the next morning with no memory of her at all. But he has this strong desire to goto this certain place. While there they meet for the first time again and commence falling in love again.

They both find out that they had done this before, failed miserablly and removed all memories of each other and are torn with what to do next. Should they continue in their new relationship or should they give up knowing they failed the first time. They both realize that whether they succeed or fail it doesn't matter because even though there are alot of things that are flawed with each other there are so many more things that are perfect and that's why they fell in love in the first place.

It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all is the underlying message of the movie. It's better to have the extreem pain of loss than to lose all the memories of a budding love that was what made them both truly happy to begin with.

Like I said, the concept and the message of the movie were very good. I just didn't like the way it was put together.