On a par with a night of heavy drinking

Carrying on the new trend of Wednesday nights at the local Odeon, thanks to the current Orange promotion, tonight I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Previously I'd only seen the trailer and hadn't read any reviews, and after hearing that the screenplay was by Charlie Kaufman who also wrote Adaptation which I saw last year, I was curous to find out exactly what it was all about.

I really enjoyed it. It certainly is a "different" film to the norm, akin to its predecessors, and for me it had a clever plot that kept things interesting and sometimes confusing, but never over-complicated. As cool as I thought Resident Evil was a few nights ago, films like "Eternal Sunshine" always make a refreshing change.

Everyone I went with seemed to enjoy the film, although the usual post-mortem was replaced by a discussion of the excellent cover of Everybody's gotta learn sometime by Beck. Very chilled.

If you've yet to see the film, I'd sugget you go and watch it without reading too much about it first. Mind you, I say that about any film; ideally I like to go to the cinema knowing only the title of the film I'm there to see. You never get that fresh view of it ever again, so make the most of it.

After you've seen it, check out the Lacuna Inc. website. The techie-minded amongst you might want to have a peek at this article from Kuro5hin.