Rather than bore you with the nuances of my hellish day, I decided to throw up two new movie reviews, both love stories out of the memento-crazy-non-linear genre. I saw "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" first. I thought it worked well, although it was a little creepy. Despite having high expectations for "Eternal Sunshine..." I managed to leave the theater with the feeling that I had seen a film that was an instant classic. Perhaps it's because I'm not the biggest fan of romance-oriented films, even those of a romantic comedy. The best part of classic romantic comedies always seems to be the comedic element...the actual connection between the two characters always seems secondary to the laughs inspired by their travails. When I left the characters played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet (before this film I deeply disliked Kate Winslet and thought Jim Carrey was at his worst when he attempted to be dramatic, like in the awful "The Majestic") didn't leave me laughing at all. They left me wondering what would happen next, but not wanting to see.

I remember someone telling me a long time ago that fairy tales always had to end with a wedding, because if they kept going, the perfection of a flawless coupling would be marred by children, by fighting over finances, by the mundane messes all couples get into together. Kaufman's work manages to pick that lock perfectly, to show the future and yet embrace the past. It's simply amazing.

I left wanting to be on a snowy beach, to just leave the world behind for a day and fall into a rut you never knew existed.