Each movie has different enlightenments to different audiences. To me, ETERNAL SUNSHINE tells the story of people forgetting and facing. Will you succeed when you want to use the power of technology to erase fragments of life? Even if it succeeds, is it all over? I have never watched CHARLIE KAUFMAN's movie before, but in the movie, I believe that he does not think that we can delete our own memories with the instrument we invented. This analogy is like a strong man unable to lift himself up. What is even more ridiculous is that before deleting, it is necessary to "locate" the memory by recalling the objects of the past. Isn't this another kind of memory?
Even if the unhappiness, embarrassment, anger, and unwillingness are deleted, will the world brighten up again? What we are seeing is just another form of restarting. And, I’m sorry that the Goddess of Forgotten is here to remind you that what you are facing is still the things you have avoided before. Or even in more direct situations. In other words, there is no panacea in this world. Only facing the crux of the problem is the only way to happiness.
The film quotes Alexander Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard, describing the sad story of the twelfth-century French theologian Abela and his student falling in love but not falling in love. One sentence is the title of the film, which, according to Huang Xiangyao, means " Only by getting rid of memory and caring, can this mottled heart be redeemed." In the movie, when MARY uttered this verse, Dr. HORWARD was painfully reluctant to recall all the past, which could not but be said to be a kind of irony. So at the end of the movie, JOEL was finally able to get rid of the past, but all this is not over, and life will continue. He is not a theologian, he does not have to dedicate himself to God, and he is not abandoned for love. So he can continue.
I think this movie is more like a realist work, because it puts those trivial, unbearable fragments of life in front of you, rather than simply telling a science fiction story about amnesia. Especially when you want to erase someone from your heart, the pain and contradiction are intertwined with the bitterness formed by the previous contempt for love, which makes people want to stop talking. Just like in real life, you resent him, want to forget him, but you can't stop it. Isn't this the magic of love?
So we can see too much from here.
Below is the translation of the quoted verse, let us feel the sorrow and hopelessness together.
The fate of the holy goddess how happy
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot !
Forgotten world, forgotten world
The world forgetting, by the world forgot .
Flawless soul distribute Eternal Sunshine
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Accept every prayer, give up every wish
each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ;
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