I dedicated a song to all my friends from my Facebook page...

after watching a strange movie last night. The movie was called "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", starring Jim Carrey ("Me, myself and Irene" and "Cable Guy"), Kate Winslett (nice), Kirsten Dunst (yummy) and Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings, and still looking like a Hobbit in this film).

Basically, the weird characters of Jim and Kate meet on a train station platform, get chatting on the train, fall in love, fall out of love, and then want to erase each other from their respective memories. It's a bit confusing to start with, but eventually the story falls into place and you end up (or at least I did) thinking "oh, ok, that's what it's all about".

Kate's character starts acting all strange toward Jim's and he finds out she has gone to see a company called "Lacuna, Inc" after reading a note something to the effect of "xxxx has erased you from her memory forever", which he wasn't supposed to see. In spite, he decides to do the same, and has to take some of Kate's things along to Lacuna so that they can begin work on him. He gets a machine linked up to his head (like a big colender) and so begins the process. You see his memories that they are trying to erase and how they become dark spots in his mind as they go through them.

Eventually though, he comes to the realisation that he doesn't want to erase the memories and starts talking to Kate in his mind. She responds, and together they choose to remember each other and fight the machine.

In the meantime, Kirsten, who is receptionist at Lacuna, is also shagging one of the technicians and ends up wanting to shag the doctor who is called out later to resolve a problem on Jim's treatment. It's here that you find out that she has also undergone the treatment previously to erase the memory of her having shagged the doctor before, which was insisted on by the doctor's wife.

Upset, Kirsten goes back to the doctor's rooms and finds a whole load of files and tape recordings made by all the people who have undergone the treatment and she listens to her tape, hearing why she has had the treatment. She then decides to steal all the files and tapes and send them to their respective owners to let them know what went on. Naturally, Jim and Kate also get theirs, and hear parts of the others recordings and some of the spiteful things they said about each other.

At this point, for a happy ending for the film, they both declare that they did not mean all those nasty things they said and declare that they still want each other. The End...

The song played at the end of the movie was an oldie called "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime", originally performed by The Korgi's, but in this case sung by Beck. I thought it was a great rendition and dedicated it to all my Facebook friends...just for the hell of it. If anybody else reading this is on Facebook, and not yet a "friend", let me know and I'll hook up with you...