)-Nietzsche Plot: On Valentine's Day in 2004, early in the morning, Joel woke up from a dream, described as haggard, he did not go to work, but somehow went straight to the train station, and squeezed to Monta at the last moment Gram train. On the cold beach of Montaque, he met Clementine, who was impulsive and cheerful. Thus, the seemingly sweet love began... However, is this miraculous meeting really accidental at first sight? Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the film, the picture suddenly went dark. In the thick black tone, the low and melancholy song of Beck Hansen sounded from the silence, and Joel in the car burst into tears and was in pain. The deep-hidden cast and crew slowly emerged. After a long wait of eighteen minutes, the title "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" finally came into the eyes of the audience. At this moment, the reality disappears and the memory rises. This winter in New York, the romantic Valentine's Day is about to come, but a pair of young lovers, Joel and Clementine, are in crisis and hurt each other cruelly. Impulsive Clementine found a high-tech company called "Blank" and implemented "memory wiping" to completely wipe Joel from his memory. Joel could not accept the fact that his girlfriend abandoned everything in an instant and found another love. He also walked into the "blank" company, demanding to clear all his memories of Clementine... Memories and forgetting: The film is constructed in one and reality In the synchronized space-time dimension, the tone is solemn. In the new century, people live happily and are lonely, and blank companies that erase memories for people are booming. Valentine's Day is approaching, and people call to make appointments to erase memories that are overwhelming. Faced with Joel's pain, Dr. Howard, who was responsible for deleting the memory, expressed deep sympathy and agreed to perform amnestics for him. What the film records is the process by which Joel’s memory of Clementine is deleted. It makes people so silent, warm, helpless, sad or mixed. The cold tone of the film and the graininess of the oil painting laid out a person's painful struggle in the face of a strange inner world. For individuals, amnesia is not a simple matter. Modern psychology believes that human memory and self-awareness are closely related. Human self-awareness is acquired through experience and accumulated by memory. The loss of memory is equal to the loss of part of the self, and the individual will no longer be complete. However, in daily life, the situation does not seem to be that serious, because forgetting is everywhere. The old man Freud believed that the forgetfulness of the unbearable and painful past stems from the instinct of human self-protection. This is the psychological proposition called "motivated forgetting". Those "bad" memories and experiences will be suppressed by the subconscious and eventually disappear. In Freund's theory, this choice is often passive and occurs naturally, and small mistakes that occur occasionally often appear repeatedly. In reality, everyone is selectively forgetting the burden of the past, with goodness, sadness or confusion. Just as Dr. Howard pointed out for Joel, the deletion of some key emotional points will lead to the disappearance of related memories. In the daily bit by bit, the self is experiencing evasive choice and elimination every moment. However, in the film, snail-like natural forgetting can no longer meet the emotional needs of modern people. Technology has advanced to the stage where memories can be erased, and moisturizing things have silently entered the value system of commercial society. The only good news is that this powerful technology is limited to people's "self-correction", which is not only voluntary, but also voluntary. This advanced technology carries the majesty of rationalism and the coldness of machinery, but it is only used to save souls who are sinking into pain. At this moment, machines and technology also have a moral color, becoming warm and tender. When talking about the harm of erasing memory with technology, Howard even comforted Joel by saying, "From a technical point of view, the erasure process itself is a kind of damage to the brain, but it is just equivalent to a hangover." Signed, today’s me has responsibly announced my farewell to yesterday’s me. What unexpected accidents can happen to this kind of clean and refreshing? Therefore, with the support of powerful technology, Clementine lost his memory of Joel, and Joel eventually lost his memory of Clementine, and Mary, with a sweet smile, lost his memory of Dr. Howard. In this winter of popular happiness and amnesia, people are scrambling to make calls to "blank" companies and rewrite themselves over and over again. Technology Utopia: Discussing the impact of technological progress on human ethics is one of the most important themes of fantasy works. The memory of an individual is like the history of a group, under a standard value system that changes over time. As far as the individual is concerned, it is emotional likes and dislikes, and in society, it is the change of thoughts. The question is, can the self of today rebuild the history of yesterday? Can today's society rewrite or forget the past? In terms of memory/history, George Orwell said in "1984": "Whoever masters history will master the future; whoever masters the present will master history." This sentence is for history and power. The explanatory relationship between the two makes a precise expression. For this film, this power of interpretation is manipulated by people's "present self". The convenience that technology brings to people is that people can arbitrarily delete the past, and in this way, indirectly change the future. However, there is a contradiction that has not been resolved, that is, the self that has lost the past is no longer the self that makes the decision. Will it identify with the former self in power and welcome a happy future with anticipation? Mary, Joel, and Clementine are the three people who are subjected to mnemonics in the film. The main part of the film is constructed on the intricate relationship between the three amnesiars and their admirers (or beloved ones). superior. Before the implementation of amnestics, Mary loved Dr. Howard deeply. After the operation, she established a romantic relationship with the technician Stan. Although she was a little at a loss, she accepted it with confidence. Impulsive and fragile Clementine erased the memory of Joel, and Patrick, the "blank technician" who had failed in his emotional life, took advantage of the vacancy and replaced Joel and became Clementine's new boyfriend. Everything was normal. Bad things are bad for Joel, who is introverted and stubborn. What Clementine did made this man who grew up in loneliness and had a painful childhood experience unacceptable. However, when the "blank" technology gradually removed Clementine from Joel's mind, Joel discovered that the removal was not only the pain that was deeply remembered, but also the beauty that was ignored and forgotten by him. Joel was introverted and lonely. Clementine was once the only flame in his life. The more the deletion process continued, the more he felt confused and fearful. Joel realized that he did not want to lose Clementine. , Finally tried to resist the whole process. Joel took his Clementine and ran around in his memory. In order to preserve the beautiful moments in his life, he even gave up his dignity and opened up those he had never been willing to open to Clementine. Childhood memories to escape the tracking of the program. The past of the two people is diminishing a little bit. In those fierce and futile resistances, Joel realized that he still loves Clementine after all. His resistance disrupted the process, but the only beauty in the spiritual consciousness could not be after all. Resist precise technical means. Joel struggled to open his eyes, but was given a sedative shot by Dr. Howard who rushed over. The doctor is responsible for the client's wishes to the end! Dr. Howard, Stan, and Mary had three puzzled faces bouncing around on the big spring bed, and those longing eyes saw the chaos and absurdity of the world. Those former love and longing can only turn into a weak tear at the corner of Joel's eyes. After experiencing the unremitting pursuit of self and love, Joel finally gave up the futile struggle. The house in the memory was slowly collapsing, passing away with the wind, and a piece of the past disappeared into invisible. After the operation was completed, Joel met Clementine again, and a sweet relationship seemed to start from the beginning; before that, Mary still had admiration for Dr. Howard after the operation, and a layer of window paper was not pierced, and everyone was in peace. nothing. At a certain moment, the world seemed to regain harmony, stability and happiness. In this harmonious world created by technology, people face a blank past, looking blank but happy. Here, the memory is fragile, and the spirit is just a subsidiary product of the body. Under the control of technology, the brain can be sorted, deleted, and formatted like a hard disk. In the face of chaotic desires and unpredictable emotions, cold reason seems to have no effect. Invincible. When I wake up, everything starts again. The painful struggles that have been gone have quietly disappeared, and those who love and hate are all turned into nothingness. People are so happy. Natural nature and fatalism: Although in the technological world guided by reason, people's self-consciousness has become the object of being cut and sorted out, and there is no ability to resist at all. Even after Joel's tenacious struggle, it can only be attributed to failure, but it is strange and strange. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Charlie Kaufman) does not like such a cold world. After amnesia, Clementine began to search for the past accompanied by his fake boyfriend Patrick. Every time Patrick's clumsy imitation of Joel stimulated Clementine's heart, unexplainable anxiety drove her. Lementine finally returned to Montak, although at a loss, although empty, there seemed to be something here that could never be replaced. Joel, who woke up, wondered, and, like his Clementine, ran to the cold beach of Montaque. Two at a loss will meet again here. Mary has a deep affection for Dr. Howard, but the real ethics negates this feeling. After losing her memory, she evasively transformed this relationship into sexual burning and release. She wanted strong alcohol and sex. In the sleeping room of Joel, she and Stan were indulgent and unscrupulous. But when she heard that Dr. Howard was coming, she immediately became like a girl in love. What should attract her is still attracting her. She repeated her life carefully, joyfully and sweetly. She clumsily recited Nietzsche and Alexander Pope, just waiting for a compliment from her lover. Mary’s sudden "you are such a sweet hart! "Foretells the fateful fall of love. In real life, people's self-differentiation is in hidden and invisible continuous changes. However, in an era of consumerism and technologicalism, machines and technology make this The exfoliation of the self has been magnified to the utmost extent. Instant amnesia, this kind of social norms of technology’s intervention and harm to the self, has been strongly resisted by intuition and subconsciousness. In these details, to apply Hemingway’s words, to the natural nature of human beings, For those mysterious spiritual activities of human beings, mature technical rationality can destroy it, but it cannot defeat it. The uniqueness of the film is that it promotes a belief in human nature while also showing This is a real picture full of misunderstandings and frustrations, failures and pains. Believing intuition and resisting forgetting are the basic behaviors of amnestics in the film. In the religious emotional experience, believing itself is a kind of faith. "The Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" "Proposed the confusion of rebuilding oneself and the infinite possibilities of the future. In addition to social ethics, a kind of fatalistic view of the soul is leading people to the inexplicable and intuitive good. The world is dim and chaotic, but in the end, The chaotic world has defeated the shining cold light of reason. Mary ran to Mrs. Howard's car window almost frantically, defending her lover, and taking the responsibility for this love on herself. But Mrs. Howard calmly told She, don’t have to apologize, you already have him. It’s hard to imagine the cruelty of this moment, she recites those beautiful sayings and verses timidly and excitedly in front of her lover, she plucked up the courage to say love, she bravely helped her lover Take responsibility, but everything is like a farce, because she has already loved so madly. But facing Stan, facing the separation of sex and love, she can only endure another misfortune. Life is here, indeed, one thing A hangover is normal. Mary took away all the customer information of the "blank" company and sent these past memories to those who wanted to return to "happiness". So, two letters were sent to "re-love". In the hands of Joel and Clementine. Flawless/Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Heart: "How happy is the destiny of a chastity woman/Forget the world, be forgotten by the world/The Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Heart/Fulfill every prayer and reject every wish . "The name of the film comes from the long poem "Eloisa to Abelard" (Eloisa to Abelard) by the great British poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in the 18th century. Pope’s poem is based on the love tragedy between the French philosopher Abelard and the abbot Eloise in the 12th century. In this ancient story, Alois, who is nearly forty years old, fell in love with his young student Eloise and planned to marry her secretly. However, Eloise’s uncle was furious and sent someone to castrate him. Abrad. Under the heavy blow, Abelard and Eloise were forced to break up and both escaped into the monastery. However, they were unforgettable with each other, leaving seven correspondences full of memories and passion after more than ten years. It is not difficult to see that "the eternal sunshine of the flawless soul" is far from this tragic story. Between God and love, Abrad and Eloise have never been "white and flawless." In the movie, when Mary presses her breath in front of Howard and gently recites these beautiful poems, the love hidden deep in her heart is also presented in the form of eroticism overwhelming morality. And she actively chose to do amnestics before, which is also a difficult reason for reason to overcome deviant emotions. Unfortunately, in Kaufman's case, where self-regulation fails, technology is powerless, and there is no happy technological utopia. In the real world, the good and the ugly are always entwined with each other. Whether it is love or life, the original face of life is a chaos full of desires. In the face of human instinct (nature), no matter how powerful technological rationality is, it is cold and limited. The audience, who has just experienced the infinite sweetness and warmth in Joel’s memories, hasn’t earned from the sadness, but has fallen into an awkward situation: in the recordings of Joel and Clementine’s self-reports, the lives of the two people are full of misunderstandings and misunderstandings. A vicious attack, two loving people do not know how to face such a past, they can only look at each other in silence. In this world, there is no flawless heart, and there is no eternal sunshine. Everything will pass away. The eternal sunshine of a flawless mind is nothing but a beautiful fantasy about midsummer in a cold and chaotic world. Are everyone fighting against self-destruction under morals and norms in a fierce form? Unfortunately, in reality, everyone quietly and quietly completed this process. At the end of the movie, the light and shadow are dim, Baker Hansen's hoarse and lonely singing, the joy of Clementine and Joel in the snow, repeated in front of the camera, seems to indicate that there are many possibilities in life. However, in the face of those selves that are constantly being weathered and peeled off, how will you treat those memories that will eventually go away quietly at any time?
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