More than Memories - [Eternal Sunshine of a Pure Mind]

Hailee 2022-04-21 09:01:05

Probably when people love to that extent, anything can happen.
From the initial indefatigable passion, to the weariness that gradually emerged, and even began to doubt the reason why they are still together. Is it a habit, a compromise, a responsibility. When they can't find the answer, people start to give up on love, and then there is a dispute between the two people, and then they use words to hurt each other. So, a kind of surgery came into being. It is said to erase all memory of another person you don't want to think of anymore.
What a selfish animal man is. When memories can be permanently deleted like any kind of file on the computer, we would choose to end our feelings in this way. Forever forgetting means eternal strength, but those beautiful, warm, deep-seated love and pain that were once entangled with life will say goodbye to you.
When Joe lay under the machine that could wipe out all his memories of Cretin, when the good and the bad flashed in his mind, he finally understood that this was the only woman he had, the only one he had Love. At the level of countless memories, he began to drag her to run. Of course, the machine was always cold, and he could not tolerate a moment's hesitation and pause. Countless times of hilarity, in the end suddenly he was alone.
Nothing can last forever. Even the warmest sunlight disappears, not to mention people's memories. But people's feelings can sometimes be so strong that even if the memory is cut off abruptly, the vague consciousness will suddenly rise up at some unobtrusive moment. Mary still fell in love with Howard again after losing her memory, and the reunion of Joe and Clétine made all the original love burst out at that moment.
It was as if Joe had forgotten how he had been sitting in his car when he had just discovered that Clette had completely forgotten about him, and how he had been crying in pain and dazed. He re-entered the hospital for revenge and some kind of unwillingness, but he didn't know that his life was destined to be linked with Clétine.
On the surface, it seems that Klei Ting is an alternative, brave, firm belief, and is not easily shaken, but when she and her new boyfriend are lying on the frozen lake after amnesia, when he starts talking about what Joe had told her. When she spoke, she had obviously forgotten everything, but suddenly burst into tears for no apparent reason, and then stumbled away.
It was only when she met Joe again that the woman whose hair color changed again and again and her face was always cold and hard seemed to regain her anger. She went around him like a little girl, smiled at him, introduced herself, got close to him, and then invited him to her home, where the two of them had drinks and chats. She leaned on him naturally and asked him if he would like to. marry her. If memory aside, this was indeed the first time the two met, but the influence of the thread of fate still made them feel like they were familiar with each other.
When Mary realizes that even losing her memory can't act on her emotions, both Joe and Clette receive tapes of words they recalled to the other person before cutting off the memory. This is probably the most cruel thing in the world. Two people who seem to be in love again suddenly hear each other's most vicious attacks on them, even if these words are not true or even sincere. Joe drove Krettin out of his car, and Krettin stood in his room suddenly bewildered and turned around to leave.
Love is so selfish and incomplete. Even making excuses to forget must be to expand another person's inevitable flaws to infinity in order to gain one's own emotional balance. That balance is between the past and the future, and sadly if one begins to tip, it will only cause total damage to the other. However, no one has ever intervened between Qiao and Klei Ting. The gap between them is that the difference in personality is too large, and they are both people who are not good at compromise.
When two people are together, it turns out that love alone is really not enough. Far from enough. Your frown or smile, whether happy or sad, was originally just your own business, but suddenly one day someone will share it with you. This seems to be a sudden and huge happiness, but it must be accompanied by various ups and downs in the future. , even suffering. There are gains and losses. This is true everywhere, and it is still the same for love.
We can't predict how it will end. But Joe chases out desperately, begging Clétine to stay. These two people who had already hurt each other enough stood in the corridor and didn't exchange much words, but the eyes that were about to say no to each other had already revealed the ultimate love.
Because sometimes, we can't ask for the final result, so when we can still touch and embrace, we should never let go. Even if the existence of sunlight is only for a moment, it can still hold eternity in the mind.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes

  • Joel: [on tape recording] And the whole thing with the hair - it's all bullshit.

    Joel: I really like your hair.

    Clementine: Thank you.

  • Hollis: Don't be a monster, Howard. Tell the poor girl. You can have him, sweetie. You did.