Forgotten the world, but also forgotten by the world, the
beautiful soul shines with eternal sunshine!
Every prayer is accepted, and every wish can be given up."
-Alexander Pope's
film The name comes from the poem "Eloisa to Abelard" by the British 18th century poet Alexander Pope. This poem comes from a true love tragedy in the 12th century in France.
Philosopher Pierre Abelard fell in love with Heloise, a 22-year-old student. For fear of affecting his status, Abelard only married Eloys in the country, and did not disclose the marriage. Eloise's uncle was furious when he heard the news and hired two men to castrate Abelard in the dead of night. Abrad, who suffered severe physical and mental damage, became a monk, and Eloise also entered the monastery. For the next ten years, the two had no contact at all. One day in the eleventh year, Abelard learned that his friend's life was not going well. So he wrote down his own experience to comfort him, recalled the good time with Eloise, discussed philosophy, poetry, never bored kisses, hugs, sweet quarrels, to discover love unknown. When Eloise saw the transcript of this letter, her heart surged, because even if the time flew by, her love for Abelard never disappeared. A total of seven letters were written between them, discussing love, marriage and philosophy. Although they never met or had intersections afterwards, their stories touched countless people, including Alexander Pope, who wrote this poem full of questions and sadness.
Movies and poetry seem to be unrelated, but in fact they are inextricably linked, and every pair of lovers can find their own shadows. Just like the story above. Even though it is beautiful when you fall in love, there is always a haze of reality that covers your lovers' eyes. So they quarreled and separated until they finally separated. But when the memories go back, they are all unforgettable beautiful fragments, at a certain moment. Break people down.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Beautiful Mind" tells a story about amnestics. Different from the previous "Wang Qing Shui" and "Meng Po Tang", the director used a jokingly weird but extremely charming technique to depict a puzzle-like world. Those puzzles are the pictures of lovers discarded by everyone. He recombined them in a unique way. Sometimes rushing and sometimes low rhythm, finally let the protagonist and the audience find the last piece of the puzzle together, connecting the whole movie, and hitting the soul.
The movie starts on the morning of Joey's whim. He was tired of going to work on time every day and taking the same train. Today he wants to fall in love with a strange woman, which is not like him at all.
Prior to this, Joey and his girlfriend Klemet deleted each other's memories, trying to solve the painful memories they brought together. The people sitting in the hospital where the memories were erased were haggard and sad, and they were holding objects about memories. Valentine’s Day gifts, products purchased together, pictures drawn together... Every memory is accumulated and erased from here. But they didn't expect that how much pain a relationship brings must also bring too much happiness. When Joey erased his memories, he realized that Klemet's shadow was all in his life. In addition to the unpleasant conversations and the unbearable shortcomings, there are so many good memories—the conversation in the library, the squabbles during the meal, the warmth during the hugs... The
first time I saw her, it was That party on the beach. She is strikingly orange. God, he thought to himself, who would dress like this? She ran over, smiled and thanked God that she was not the only one who was not sociable, and then grabbed the chicken drumsticks from his plate without his permission and ate it. At that moment, the air was filled with wonderful intimacy. In this way, she blows into his regular life like a whirlwind. She always gave him the excitement of riding a roller coaster, playing with her own tricks like a little witch, and was so happy that he could turn his jokes around every time. Later, these reasons for his petting turned into shortcomings that made him intolerable. Quarrel, drunkenness, anger, hurt words. Everything happened naturally and irreversibly. In fact, she just needs someone to truly understand her and show her care, not just treat her as an accessory to her life. She is so insecure.
Kate Winslet's performance is very careful and dazzling, and it is absolutely impossible to fault. Klemet is beautiful. Beautiful things are actually fragile and need to be cared and cared for. She has a strong sense of inferiority, eager to be truly discovered her beauty, not just fascinated by her appearance.
Kim Carey once again proved his free acting skills. Joey's introverted and shyness and some hesitations are vividly interpreted by him. He proved with practical actions that the director was right to choose him instead of Nicholas Cage. His slightly nervous little movements made him feel intensely uneasy and overwhelmed. This time his distorted face was no longer hip-hop and weird, but deep pain.
When Joey saw the beauty between them for the first time in his memories, he pitifully said to those who erased his memories, could I keep this point?
It's a pity that no one can hear him.
The world around him was collapsing, and tomorrow morning he would completely forget Klemet. He began to flee with the girlfriend in his memory, until he was a child-the times that made him ashamed, the problems that every boy had to face when he grew up.
This is my favorite part and the most brilliant part of the performance of the two.
The childhood kitchen.
Joey got under the table. For children, they are always alone, and no one will pay attention to their opinions. The safest place is under the table. You can avoid the whole world, dangling with your feet up, watching your mother's feet walk around without being noticed. Kim Carey's performance is full of contradictions but so reasonable. When he played a child, he seemed to have really returned to that era, his childishness remained, but there was a kind of sadness and fear in his body that could not be erased. That should be the feeling that people who have experienced growth and tempering will have. And when he is showing childishness as an adult, it really makes people feel that he always has a kind of emotion, which is staying in his childhood-that kind of disapproval. The shot of smashing a bird with a hammer in a robe reminded me of a ballad about "killing a robin". The robin is a harmless bird, but they killed it. Children always use that cruel game to prove their bravery. It was cruel in nature, and people couldn't help but feel chills.
The scene changes constantly. From one memory to another. The surrounding scenery moves from midwinter to midsummer, and then to another midwinter. There is no sense of panic. They gradually discovered that after many years of love, their hearts have always been far away. They just portrayed the ideal image in their hearts, and didn't really walk into each other's hearts. At the beach where they met, Joey finally said goodbye to Clemette. He understood that holding her tightly again and again couldn't save anything. Next time, you must live in her heart.
The villa began to collapse. His girl just disappeared in his memory. It's like the TV is turned off.
Black screen. Nothing seems to have happened.
While erasing Joey's memory, there is another relationship happening at the same time. Mary, a nurse at the amnestic hospital, fell in love with the doctor Howard, who was much older and had a family. Pope's poems also came from her mouth. When she read, she seemed to be singing a ballad. Every time she mustered up the courage to confess to him, she would find that they had fallen in love many times. Every time she deletes her memory, she still falls in love with him like a sunflower looking at the sun.
Yes. There is an eternal light in the hearts of those who are pure. Will not disappear with the disappearance of memory-that is the light of love. So, what can happen even if you forget everything about that person. When I met him, I would still fall in love with him again, and be moved by the same smile of the same person. Because what they erased is only the memory, not her heart. At that moment, she was standing in front of him, but she didn't know that they had loved each other deeply.
What kind of sorrow is that.
At the end of the film, it is back to where it started. Joey skipped work for no reason, wanting to fall in love with a strange woman, such a crazy behavior is not like him at all. In fact, if someone has ever been to your world, something will always seep into your body and become an indelible part of your life. It's like two separate pieces of paper stuck together. Once torn apart, none of them will be complete. There will always be one part that will stay on the other half forever. That is the result of the influence and integration of two people who love each other. After so much, everyone will know something. If you blindly avoid the pain caused by those things, then those pain will never stop entangled you, like an inextricable nightmare.
Everyone will have a deep scar in their heart. It doesn't matter, that will teach you how to love better.
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