Just like a person, the moment you meet him/her, you also have a preliminary feeling that we are or are not similar in smell.
I knew it was my favorite when the movie started.
In the deep cello and quiet piano sound, a young male voice is also low, even softly talking to himself, like reading a diary:
Random thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2004.
Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies…… to make people feel like crap. I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk.
I don't know why.
I'm not an impulsive person.….
(to a deserted beach in Montauk )
It's goddamn freezing on this beach.
Montauk in February, brilliant, Joel.
(Opening a notepad that hasn’t been moved for two years, there are illustrations on it)
Pages ripped out. Don't remember doing that.
……
This man is called Joel Barish, unshaven, looked a little dull, he could even say that he looked miserable. It took a lot of effort to convince myself that this person is the "geek in disguise" Jim Carrey who can pull apart and reorganize his facial features and open his mouth like a faucet.
He was very uncomfortable when he got up early in the morning, as if he was drinking all night. Going downstairs and seeing the car hit a pit again. He didn't know that he had just received a partial memory removal operation just last night. He erased his wife from his memory just as what she does to him. They met on the beach of Montauk two years ago, and now their relationship has deteriorated, and they have very harsh evaluations...
just this morning after the operation, He felt very uncomfortable and absent from work. He came to Montauk Beach and met a somewhat neurotic, very impulsive, and energetic orange girl. Her name is Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet), which he removed from his memory last night. girlfriend.
Of course, you won't know this until the end of the story.
Looking at the beginning, I thought it was the beginning of a romantic story. After 17 minutes, Ga Di stopped. Jim Carrey's distorted face appeared in the dark background, followed by the main creative subtitles. We should know that if we are smarter, we will go back in time. On this day, Joel's wife couldn't stand the bad state of the two, and went to a company called Lacuna to apply for a service-to remove her boyfriend Joel from her mind. Joel’s carefully selected Valentine’s Day gifts went to her place of work and found that her girlfriend didn’t seem to know him at all...
Joel didn’t know how to relieve this pain. He seemed to have only one choice-to do the same operation.
The middle paragraph can be described as chaotic and novel. It is the movie with the most overlapping space I have ever seen. One is the real space where two hairy boys from Lacuna Company gave Joel a memory removal when he sleeps at night; the other is the imagination in Joel's brain during the operation, and he went to Lacuna Company to undergo the operation; and then Joel's brain during the operation What is constantly flashing in the life of Joel and Clementine in the past two years, the quarrels and conflicts have intensified...This space is often interrupted by the dialogue between the two hairy boys who are undergoing surgery, and Joel, who is remembering it, hears it. A guy named Patrick fell in love with the girl they had just had their memory removed last week, that is, Joel’s girlfriend Clementine, and there was the sound of their phone midway, which awakened and was drowsy and recalling (at the same time these memories were erased) In) Joel. He realized that he didn't want to lose all of this, and started to fight the disappearing memory. He took Clementine in her memory and fled around in the past time and space, and escaped to his childhood (where Clementine did not exist in Joel's memory), and then they disappeared from the memory map that was being erased, the machine that erased the memory It stopped automatically...but it was only temporary. The machine malfunctioned and was contacted by the company boss who rushed over, and the operation was finally successfully completed.
Then the movie returns to the beginning, where Joel woke up in the morning...
Joel and Clementine are two very different people.
Joel is introverted, unable to speak well on the surface, and a little dull, but he is very active in his heart. He doesn't tell many things, but writes and draws in the notebook. These things probably have never been seen by Clementine.
Clementine is an open book. Everything is written on the face, and many words will be spoken directly, including some truths, and the truths are often not very pleasant. For example, when I told Joel to eat in a restaurant, "Can you help wash the soap bubbles on your head next time you take a shower? It's really indecent and offensive (the two words start from Joel's mouth) Li came out silently, and then he smiled and watched Clementine speak out. I couldn't bear to see such a smile and felt uncontrollable sadness).
Joel met Clementine for the first time at Montauk Beach, and was attracted by her, orange sweatshirt, strange name, green hair, (will become orange, purple, etc.), a kind of natural intimacy ( Picking up the chicken drumstick on his plate, he gnaws)...For Joel, Montauk is magical just like her name. Without him speaking, she can talk a lot and have a lot of whims.
But Clementine is not perfect, her character can be magical or hell. Everything has a double edge. Over time, the good is taken for granted because of the habit, and the bad is backlogged in my heart, decayed, and unbearable.
Just like Zhang Ailing’s talk about white roses and red roses, over time, red roses will become a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, and white roses will become white rice on clothes...
Familiarity can be a tacit understanding, or it can be a Kind of terrible thing. When you can predict exactly what the person next to you will do and say, you will feel captured and feel like a prey.
The process of Joel undergoing amnestic surgery is actually the process of undergoing surgery on their emotions.
He and his memory and Clementine escaped to childhood, where he was very secretive. Clementine complained more than once that Joel never told her about himself. In fact, some shadows of childhood can still be found in his real life. Joel seemed a little autistic in his childhood. He liked to play by himself under the table. In the memory, he was ridiculed by a few little boys for not having the so-called masculinity, forcing him to hit the bird they caught with a hammer. In the harsh sound of hammers, a little girl dragged him away awe-inspiringly, asking him to "murder" herself with a pillow to prove his courage. Then switch to the game he and Clementine often play, and "murder" each other with a pillow...
Joel is a cowardly man, not because he dare not kill the bird, but because he always wants to shrink back when he encounters problems and refuses to communicate. He always said "I don't wanna talk about it here (or now)." He didn't want to talk about it, and felt that Clementine's constantly talking communication from time to time, and never listened to it.
Back to the end, in the present tense, Joel and Clementine met for the second time and fell in love at first sight. Then they both received a package with audio tapes of them before the operation, complaints and extremely harsh comments about each other...know everything , I was hurt and couldn't face it when I heard such an unbearable image in the other party's heart.
Listen to the final dialogue:
Clementine: I'm not a concept, just a fucked-up girl looking for peace of mind. I'm not perfect.
Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you right now.
Clementine: But you will. You know. You will think of things. I'll get bored of you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: (Pause for a while) Okay.
Cry ...To tear into laughter...
yes, the ending is Happy ending. I don't know how big this ratio will be in reality, but after Joel's struggle and reflection in the amnestic process, they deserve such a happy ending.
To put it simply, this story is very good, and it is not bad.
It's not a movie with many grand themes and many important meanings. But if I love someone, I will watch it again and again and watch this movie which is a bit sour, but may make our lives very sweet.
Ps1: The name of the movie, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless heart, sounds good, but it's not always sure what it refers to, or not at all.
Ps2: The screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Charlie Kaufman) is very good, I guess his brain structure should be very different from ours. Seeing his screenwriter Being John Malkovich in a class about two years ago, the feeling of surprise is still very clear. I will show you another chapter when I have time...
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