Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

"you look like a tangerine."

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
one of my favorite movies.
Jim Carrey. Kate Winslet. Elijah Wood. Mark Ruffalo. Kirsten Dunst. Tom Wilkinson.
a 2004 American drama and romantic comedy by French director Michel Gondry

okay.
synopsis. synopsis.
DISCLAIMER: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) is an emotionally withdrawn man and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) is his girlfriend who is a dysfunctional free spirit. They are inexplicably attracted to each other despite their different personalities.
They do not realize it at the time, but they are former lovers now separated after two years together. After a nasty fight, Clementine has had her memories of their relationship erased from her mind. Upon learning this, Joel is devastated and goes to the doctor to have the same procedure of erasing her memories done. However, while unconscious, Joel has second thoughts and decides he wants to keep his memories of Clementine.
Much of the film takes place in Joel's brain as he tries to find a way to preserve his memories of Clementine and two Lacuna techies Patrick (Elijah Wood) and Stan (Mark Ruffalo) try to erase the memories. We watch their love and courtship go in reverse. The memories are slowly erased while Joel tries his best to resist the procedure and hide inside his mind.
In separate and related story arcs, the employees of Lacuna Corporation are revealed to be more than peripheral characters in scenes which further show the harm caused by the memory-altering procedure. Mary (Kirsten Dunst) has had an affair with the married doctor, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, who heads the company (Tom Wilkinson). She agreed to have the affair erased from her memory when his wife discovered the relationship.
Patrick who is lonely and socially inept, becomes fixated on Clementine and uses Joel's personal mementos that he gave to Lacuna as part of the procedure in order to seduce Clementine. These romantic entanglements turn out to have a critical effect on the main story line of the relationship between Joel and Clementine.
Once Mary learns of the affair she has had with the doctor, she steals the company's records and sends them to all of its clients. Thus Joel and Clementine both get to listen to their initial tape recordings at Lacuna, and afterwards realize that even if everything in life isn't perfect, their relationship can still be worthwhile.

remember this?
"perception is the process of selecting, organising and interpreting information in order to give personal meaning to the communication we receive."
Seiler & Beall

its always about how we choose to interpret the information we receive to understand the message but as for Joel, its how those memories being erased from his mind that helped him understand the fact that he had always loved Clementine. but seriously, to erase the memories of the one you love is a waste. i'm not sure if im interpreting this right but a friend once said, it is a shame for someone to turn down love.
you know how it goes, you usually meet the one you love, or going out with, or have a crush on, is the one you see very often. not exactly sure how it links back to the movie, but whatever really.
okay, maybe Clementine and Joel met randomly, they lacked the similarity, the differences between them is so huge that they knew they would never survive together or separately(if they had memories of each other still in thier heads)-not sure if this makes sense- thus both Clementine and Joel chose to destroy the "mental framework that they had developed over time".

Joel: It would be different if we could just give it another go-around.
Clementine: Remember me. Try your best. Maybe, we can.

they both met again after the procedure but found out that they knew each other from before. they had to forget all typical scripts of how a normal relationship goes. their relationship was complex. they knew each other from before, they shared memories once before and to do it all over again, a typical script had to be forgone. they knew the outcome of their "new" relationship even before it began.

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: Okay.