The first time I saw the short film advertisement of this movie was before the start of a normal movie. A gray-haired old man dressed as a scientist said to the screen in a laboratory filled with test tubes, flasks and electronic instruments: Imagine one day, your life will become perfect. Imagine one day, the development of modern technology can eliminate all imperfect pieces of life. Imagine one day, there is no more sadness and despair in life, and life will always be sunny.
I clearly remember my reaction at the time: "What a strange advertisement! I didn't know what product was being promoted after talking about it for a long time." When I
actually started watching this movie, my reaction was the same for more than half an hour. The response of the short film advertisement is similar: what do you mean, what do you mean!
So when Kim Kelly’s host, Clemente, discovered his ex-girlfriend, Clemente, played by Kate Winslet, used this advanced technology to take painful memories and all memories about him from his head. After the erasure, when I decided to perform the same operation to erase Keli Mentai from my memory, the relief that came to my mind was nothing short of an enlightenment. It was more than a drink by the wisest old monk. To be enjoyable. I can't wait to get up from my seat and shout to the screen: The director is a genius, I understand, I am also a genius!
Of course, I didn't stand up and shout. I am not a fool who considers myself a genius. The excitement of this movie has just begun here.
Charlie Kaffman, who wrote this script, is the real genius behind the scenes. He led the audience to wander through Joel's subconscious, analyzing people's consciousness and thinking in the most humorous, most incredible, yet most profound way. Happiness is the eternal goal of mankind. How many times have we fantasized about forgetting those unhappy memories and eliminating those painful memories. But if one day, technological advancement can erase all the stains in memory and let the flawless soul live in eternal sunshine, will we really be happy? While losing pain, people also lose the possibility of self-reconciliation and the opportunity to accept self-acceptance of life. As a result, the wrong history is repeated again and again.
When Rio’s subconscious mind discovers that he still loves Clementi deeply, he has to fight with his own consciousness to save the last memory of love. At this time, how the story develops is no longer important, and even how touching and shocking the love between Joel and Clementine is not the point. The point is that this film expresses a complex philosophical issue so vividly and touchingly. All the cause and effect are unprecedentedly complete, without any flaws. This is not so much a love movie as it is a philosophical movie, an irrigation of wisdom. Although it does not bring eternal sunshine to our hearts, it leads us to a step towards happiness.
Although the philosophical shock of "The Eternal Sunshine of the Flawless Mind" surpasses love, from then on, whenever I think of love, what I see before my eyes is Yoel and the blue-haired Clementine lying on the cracked frozen lake. The tranquility above and the waves underneath the calm surface are surging. So when Zhou Xun repeated the scene lying on the ice in Chen Kexin's "If·Love", I had basically predicted the ending of the movie.
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