"Meet me in Montauk." Breaking through the memory-erasure procedure Joel (Jim Carrey) has impulsively agreed to undergo to wipe out any recollection of his failed relationship with Clementine (Kate Winslet), those whispered words evoke the possibility of second chances, of lost lovers reunited, of happiness recaptured and held. Eternal Sunshine is unique because as Joel loses his memories, the film in turn discards all the reasons why he and Clementine were wrong for each other, and rediscovers the ways in which they initially were — and might one day be again — so right.