"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is a love movie with science fiction, and it is also a philosophical drama. It is a romance film because it is a feature film with love, marriage, and family as the main content. It is said to be a science fiction film because it is based on the unrevealed scientific principle of "modifying memory", and imagined to show a certain drama event in a fantasy virtual world created. I believe that there are quite a lot of sample essays for the analysis of a wide range of genres. Here I will mainly analyze the various types of love in the film, the philosophical thinking and the details of the science fiction technology in the film, in the film, in Charlie Kauf Mann’s imaginative screenplay and Miguel Gander’s ingenious montages pay attention to the easily overlooked information that the film brings to us. Regardless of the elements of love in the film, this film can be regarded as a one-step romance. Everyone who appears in the film may have an element of love in it. The combination of so many kinds of love makes the love described in this film very full and lifelike. Joel Barish & Clementine Kruzynski Joel is a timid, sensitive, mediocre three-point line of life ordinary man, Clem is passionate, different and fickle. The two of them have very different personalities, but people tend to be attracted to people with different characteristics. But two people with very different personalities are destined to have countless frictions and differences when they live together. Like most love in the world, people always love each other. Love leads to long-term relationships, long-term relationships lead to mutual understanding, mutual understanding leads to the minimization of strengths and the maximization of shortcomings, and then causes one or both parties to be bored with each other. , Finally break up or adopt a passive indifferent attitude. But in the separation meeting between the two sides, a lot of the past has become very beautiful. Then know how to cherish. Their last passage can express this state: 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. Clem cried, then burst into tears and laughed. People always have good expectations for love, and they always believe that the next "right person" is the paradigm of almost all love. Howard Mierzwiak & Mary Svevo If there is an "ethical" element in this film, it should be reflected in this pair. Mary and Howard had a conversation in Joel's room. Mary read to Howard a verse called "From the Religion of Alexandria" in the film "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot, Eternal sunshine" of the spotless mind, Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned." It's a point. I always think that the screenwriter deliberately asked Mary to point the point, because the drama of this pair is even stronger than that of the protagonist. And the story told by this long poem is also not meaningful. This poem by Alexander Pope describes the story of the twelfth-century French theologian Abola and his students who fell in love but couldn't fall in love. Mary said, "I think this sentence is more appropriate." Yes, it is not only suitable for the story in the film, but also conforms to the irony of the technology of modifying memory, and it also reflects the irreversibility of human emotions, which is really very subtle. Mary's feelings for Howard are mixed with admiration for him, and many details can be reflected. Mary likes to say aphorisms, she said to Stan, "I believe that one day, Howard's words will be recorded there." And she hopes to stay awake and smart in front of him. In fact, feelings of this kind are also common in real society. And when Howard's wife said to her, "You have been cheated, you have succeeded", the screenwriter's attitude towards this technology in the film is fully reflected. Patrick & Clementine Kruzynski In this "relationship" between Patrick and Clem, please note that I put the feelings in quotation marks. It should be said that their feelings are not love at all. Patrick is too young, it can be said that he does not know how to fall in love, so for Clem, he has a "conquer desire", there is a detail, he calls Clem an "old woman", he likes Clem, more hope Reflect his power. Clem is a woman he can't control, so he has been learning Joel's way of treating her, hoping to get her heart. In the end, he relied more on Clem and didn't want her to leave him. So in general, Patrick is still a child when it comes to love, too naive, and too little independent of his own. Of course, people like Patrick have a lot of attention in real life, especially among the students. Stan Fink & Mary Svevo I always think that Stan is a more introverted person than Joel. He represents most people who "like but can't tell". He has also been waiting, waiting for the other person to find his own good and fall in love with himself. Many details in the film can be reflected. For example, he will always appear in front of Mary deliberately, and he will leave silently after Howard comes. The former is that he hopes to attract Mary's attention more, and the latter is that his actions will not attract her. No matter how you look at it, Stan is the more passive one in love. Finally, he took her bag to find her, and finally confessed to her, but at a rather inappropriate time, it simply reproduced a lot of scenes in love dramas in real life. Howard Mierzwiak & Hollis I think the ingenuity of the screenwriter is that in the entire event that did not exceed four days, it alluded to the love route of a lot of characters, and the most ingenious, I think it is this couple. Hollis's appearance lasted only five minutes, and there were no five sentences in his lines, but he explained clearly the rifts, explanations, promises, reconciliations, etc. that the couple had experienced in the past. In the real world, there are too many such couples. They live around us. There are not many descriptions in the film of Rob Eakin & Carrie, but their living conditions are still very distinct. There are two details. One is that they quarreled because of Joel, and the other was that when they went to Montauk to play, Carrie wanted to help Rob carry the remote control plane. Rob treated it as a treasure, not Carrie. From this we can also see their lives. Rob has his own principles and things he has always insisted on. Perhaps it was these things that attracted Carrie at the beginning, but in the end it became something that Carrie must endure. This is also very much in reality. Commonly, we can also see that Carrie compromises most of the time. I think their lives must be the lives of most couples we are familiar with. Joel Barish & Naomi Naomi did not appear in the film, but through Joel's words and his state, we can understand their life pattern, two words, will just. Joel said: "Maybe I should go back to find Naomi, She is nice, nice is good." This state is very similar to many cohabiting men and women. They have been very hesitant about their feelings and their lives. Every day is the attitude of the day. In addition, in fact, when Joel and Clem ate in the restaurant, the couple called "The dinning dead" by Joel is also the state of most couples' lives. The negative indifference to life is like stagnant water. From this we can see that although this film is called a so-called "post-modern film", the reason why it feels very real is that the screenwriter and director’s insights give a sense of the living conditions of various people. penetrating. Makes the emotions in the film very rich and diverse. The sci-fi elements in the film actually I prefer to call it a "philosophical film", because Charlie Kraftman used the approach of "modifying memory" to make science and humanity carry out an obscure confrontation. In the film, a complex philosophical issue is expressed in a touching image. Cause and effect, reincarnation, subconsciousness, etc. have all been performed in an unprecedentedly satisfactory manner in the film. So it shocked me in philosophy even more than love. Because of the addition of the element of science fiction, the director can better use montage to show the confrontation between Joel's consciousness and subconscious. All stories are set to occur in people's "memory", and the plot is in an almost psychedelic atmosphere. , The lens is messy, shakes, the picture is trivial, fragments... There are almost no scenes with beginnings and ends. But the audience did not feel that Chile was broken at all. On the contrary, the whole plot was almost completed in one go. I can’t help but think of a lot of “stream of consciousness” movies. The difference is that most of the narratives of “stream of consciousness” movies are only clear about “consciousness”. In this movie, the director even dismembered “consciousness”. It cannot be used to construct a plot, and it is even subverting the integrity of any plot. But the audience is grasped by such chaotic "consciousness". If most of the stream-of-consciousness movies are close to "reflection" consciousness, this movie is an emotional "pre-reflection" consciousness. I believe that the focus of this film is never on themes such as "the human mind will definitely defeat science and technology", but more on letting us face our emotions directly through the consequences of this technology. It is hard to push one's own emotional process in front of oneself. Seeing my own touch, absurdity, selfishness, etc. The brilliance of the film is that it only makes statements, but does not draw any conclusions. Every audience has their own opinions. This film is like splitting the feelings of various people in reality and reflecting on their own lives and Concept of Love. The detailed structure is believed to be very confusing to most people because of the structure of the film. The beginning of the story is only after the 17-minute prologue, but if you pay attention, you will find that there are quite a lot of details in the film explaining the story. The order of occurrence. 1. The subtitles only appeared after 17 minutes, which means that the first 17 minutes were just an confession. During these 17 minutes, it was also a snippet of Joel's muttering to himself, which also indicated the structure of the story. 2. After the prologue, I saw Joel's sad face, and when I looked carefully, he found that there was a black marker on his temple. This should be the night after he came back from LACUNA INC, which is before he will delete his memories. 3. In the process of clearing the memory, a red light flickered one or two times, and then you can see that Joel can hear the voice of the staff, and he walked into his own memory. In reality, you can see Patrick messing around with instruments. This indicates that some technical reasons may have caused some mistakes, which made Joel walk out of his own consciousness, which also made him gradually regretted after watching the bits and pieces of himself and Clem in his memory. The escape with Clem in mind was rationalized. 4. The process of revising the memory is from the most recent to the first encounter with Clem. In my mind, it looks like a flashback. By reorganizing these things, you can know their love process and all the contradictions. 5. Because everything is the consciousness in Joel’s mind, there is always a strong subjective color. This is why Clem has his own consciousness and helps him find a way, because there is a strong subconscious in Joel’s mind, hoping for her forgiveness. Among them, in the train station section, he was very aggrieved and said to Clem that she had to delete him before he did so. This can be seen. 6. Joel took Clem into his own most shameful memory. This is actually one of the contradictions between them. Clem blamed him for not being true to himself, saying that she told him all shameful things, but he always He has reservations about her, but in this "escape", he is very frank with her, which can also indicate that his encounter with her again will resolve this contradiction. 7. At the end before the deletion of consciousness, Clem told him to let him return to Montaque again. This was actually a strong subconscious, so a great echo effect was used, and then it snapped. This can also explain why Joel went to Montague against his personality for no reason. Before that, I want to talk about the topic again. Spotless is "flawless", but when taken apart, spot is "spot" and spotless is "spotless". In the map edited for Joel, we can see that there are many memory "plot points" mentioned in the film, which can be regarded as another topic. The spotless mind is the deleted love memory. Eternal sunshine, eternal sunshine. For an ordinary man like Joel, Clem is undoubtedly his sunshine changing his life. In the film, he himself said, "She brought others into another world, full of magic, fantasy, and beauty." Therefore, the film named "a touch of orange sunshine" with many tones. In the first 17 minutes, the overall tone of the picture was blue, gray, and black full of melancholy colors. Whether it's the sea, the train, or Joel himself. Knowing the appearance of Clem wearing orange clothes, after their conversation on the train, the color began to slowly appear warm, and there was sunshine. After that, the picture fell into darkness and coldness again, and Clem's always warm outfit came out. The sea of Montage that appeared repeatedly in the end had different tones. The last scene should be the clearest, but it didn't feel as cold as the one that appeared in consciousness. About some others 1. Montage’s beach is specifically mentioned in the film, and Joel said that sand is nothing more than tiny stones. Sand is often used as a metaphor for passing, whether it is memories or feelings. 2. The train. The train is represented by the passing of time. At the end of consciousness, Joel was in the car filled with sand, and the surrounding scenery was full of Clem's memories, as if regressing and passing by, but he could do nothing. This is also full of meaning. 3. I listened to the song with Clem's name repeatedly, it was "Oh, my daring, oh, my darling, oh, my darling, Clementine. You were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry Clementine." Take a closer look at the lyrics In fact, it is also meaningful. 4. The theme song of the film is "Everybody's got to learn sometime" sung by Beck, the original singer of The Korgis, originally a popular pop song in the 1980s, and under the reinterpretation of Beck, it has a taste of vicissitudes. The meaning of the lyrics is very close to the theme of the film. Many people on the Internet regard this film as their classic. I think this is a film worth watching carefully. It is a memory of love and a memory of growth. What touched me about this film is its truthfulness. It does not shy away from any private psychological injuries, and dares to face people's weaknesses. The pictures full of life details are like interpreting one's own life. Those beautiful and hurtful things are worth learning for each of us. "Change your heart Look around you Change your heart It will astound you I need your lovin' Like the sunshine Change your heart Look around you Change your heart Will astound you I need your lovin' Like the sunshine I need your lovin' Like the sunshine Everybody'
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