it's about a guy, who wants to erase this girl from his memory... and he goes DEEP inside his head, and relives all the memories.... and he slowly looses each one, and chases this girl through his mind... which is a reflection of how he chased her through his life....
Really really profound movie. I don't remember if she died, or just left him.
hmmm...I however have seen this on an extremely high dosage many times and it gives you an entirely new perspective on the movie. Basically what actually happened is they dated for a long ass time after meeting on the beach, which he was only on because his neighbors/friends wanted to cheer him up after a big fight with his gf.. kate winslet in the movie is so spontaneous and crazy, that she seeks to have the operation of having her brain erased of all memories after a few short months of bickering and name calling. jim carry only figures out because everyone that knows about their relationship was mailed a card that said "so and so's brain was erased of so and so memories, please do not bring up these memories or it can cause serious damage to their brain", his friends that took him to the beach show him the card and they get in a huge fight over telling him.. well out of spite he storms off with all of his belongings in trash bags to the brain-erasers, and they schedule his brain to be computed/processed while he is sleeping to make it implanted in his mind, in his dreams. They give him a drug to take before the procedure and he falls into dream state. In dream state he realizes his love for her and makes the decision to fight to keep her in his memory. As his mind flashes through different moments in time, he focus's on her and she helps him out the whole way along. Makes you wonder if conciously, she really wanted to be with him too, even though it was only a dream.
Elijah wood is one of the doctors trainee's, or new employee and has a thing for kate winslet and steals her underwear (apparently) while they were running her procedure at her house...
He's in jim carrys house with the guy doing the whole thing, and keeps talking about jim carrys girl. He keeps weaving in and out of dream state and can hear every word elijah wood says about jim carrys ex girlfriend, really drives him crazy in the movie.
The music selection, the cinematography. Its probably in the top five movies ever made. Its probably THE movie to watch on acid, but there are lots of good other ones.
Don't consider this a spoiler, there is much to understand, hopefully I only helped your brain comprehend. The movies timeline is all over the place, shoots from beginning to end to middle, to memories. The whole train scene is just them spontaneously playing hooky from work, and winding up on a train together trying to figure out how they know eachother (this whole scen is AFTER they both had the procedure done). The inter company relationship and the old guy and his wife...it gets mind blowing.
check it out.