Erasing

Memories don’t necessarily have to be about someone you’ve dated or have been married to, it can be related to anything in your life. Think for a second, if you lost that memory, that thought, the one you really want to let go of because the thought of it hurts, if you woke up one day and forgot about it completely, would it change who you are? 

These memories are an important part of your life, if it’s a bad memory you remember it, and learn from it, and if it’s a good memory, you smile at the thought of it. You may not realize it until its gone. In ‘The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind’ the writer wants to explain the feeling of losing the memories, and how it changes your life once you lose them. He explains the importance of memory by showing the fictional process of the erase-al of memory. We can’t really erase our memory or even a part of it, and that for us is the sad sorry truth, how we wish sometimes to have something that could help us erase it;  he shows us how even having that done can be very painful.

The Eternal Sunshine of the spotless has been writted by Charlie Kaufman and
Pierre Bismuth and directed by Michel Gondry. It has won the Oscar in 2005 and won and been nominated for many other prestigious awards.

The movie rotates around 5 characters, Kate Winslet as Clamentine, Jim Carrey as Joel, Kirsten Dunst as Mary, Elijah Wood as Patrick and Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Howard Mierzwiak.  It revolves around Joel's reflections of love while they were being erased. The movie was intense, required absolute and undivided attention. The scenes constantly changed from the present time to the past and even took us to a world of imagination.

“Be careful for what you wish for,” cliché much? It’s true.