What happened between us?

Clare 2022-03-20 09:01:05

When I saw the end, I realized that the beginning part of the movie was their reunion. Clear the memory and conceive a unique movie, but I don't particularly like this part. For me, the beauty of this movie does not lie in its bizarre conception, unique picture transformation... these maverick expressions. But it's its perspective: So how did we, who love each other, get to the last step, and how did those beautiful things be wiped out by us?

The men and women who broke up came to the clinic one after another to ask for the operation to clear the memories related to the other party. When they made their own explanations, they could tell that many of the other parties were wrong. There is no doubt that they all came with resentment. And when I went backwards to delete my memories, the bits and pieces of the past emerged one by one, there were anger, there were quarrels, but there were also warm episodes, and there were good times. Slowly, the male protagonist regretted the operation and tried to keep his memory... The resentment of the breakup is true, and the true feelings of the past are also true. Then, what is wrong? What happened to this end for two loved ones?

To say that this is a love story, it’s okay for the men and women who broke up to discover in their memories that they are still in love with each other. In fact, this is not a big deal. However, not all stories about men and women have to go to the same end by different paths. Telling a complete love story with twists and turns is considered a stop. Maybe this movie is to express a state, a phenomenon-no answer, lack of storytelling, but very real .

Don't expect any love to be "the prince and the princess have lived a happy life". Most movies and novels talk about men and women falling in love, but what about the life after love? No one seems to care, but it is indeed the most common and true. In the trivial matters of life, love gradually becomes less bright, gradually less important, and less often mentioned. As time passes, the more trivial becomes, love almost seems to have been forgotten. When we discuss messy chores more than ours, deal with work or other people's affairs more than ours, thinking about all kinds of things that are necessary for life more than ours... Let us start The feeling of excitement that makes our hearts move disappears as if the magic performance is over. As a result, fatigue and pressure are followed, and some trivial things will knock our increasingly tense nerves-knock and knock, and then break. It seems that there is no specific major event, but these two people who had been in love with each other have become unable to be together in harmony.

Is it boring? Compared with "love stories", it is indeed boring, but it is very common and ordinary. Otherwise, how can there be so many arguments about "tolerance", "tolerance", "mutual understanding", and "responsibility". What can we do? By the way, there is also "cherish", this time it is the most appropriate to use this term. However, isn't the so-called "cherish" just the way to make up for it after losing it? It's just a useless closing statement. From the road of falling in love, getting along, and breaking up, who can warm up the so-called "cherish" in advance? Being in the "now" at that time, people can only feel at that moment. But I think it’s impossible for us not to do something, or something like this: when we can’t control our emotions, are about to give up, or even decide, think about our beginnings. The beautiful feelings that brought us together at the beginning will be touched. Our tight nerves give us a gentle reminder. Forgetting nothing can't forget it. This is the only and most precious reason that connects us together-it will definitely work, more or less, I believe.

This movie reminded me of a novel: Mike Gal’s "Breakup List", which is also the memories of a man and a woman after they separated, from falling in love, and finally being together, very sweet, to ordinary life, to enthusiasm. Again... a very real process. The difference with this movie is that the novel is very simple, without those strange colors, it is an out-and-out popular novel. I think the whimsical ideas of this movie are only the form of expression, it is the means by which it attracts the audience, and the meaning it wants to convey is actually the process of change between the two of them, and it is used to present this state to ours. In front of me, what I think about is the audience's own business.

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Extended Reading
  • Amani 2022-03-24 09:01:06

    How can i forget that i've loved you

  • Cayla 2022-03-25 09:01:04

    More than just a good script, everything is good.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes

  • [last lines]

    Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.

    Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.

    Joel: Okay.

    Clementine: [pauses] Okay.

  • Clementine: Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.