Blessed Are the Forgetful

Reginald 2022-04-21 09:01:05

Everyone's situation is different, even in similar growth environments, and there are differences in nature caused by genetic factors. Therefore, different people will have their own views on the same thing. This is a fact that is easy to understand, but also easy to ignore. A simple example is recommending a movie to someone. You think it's good because it fits your own life experience, and others may think so. Therefore, rather than a simple and crude evaluation of "good-looking!" or "rubbish!", a more ideal statement would be "from my personal point of view, at a certain point, this movie is interesting, but I think if you , may like or dislike at some point" (seems to fit Virgo's obsessive-compulsive disorder for accurate information hehe).
As a result, wiggling and talking with a bunch of qualifiers can greatly reduce the fluency of everyday communication. Because when asked about the movie, unfamiliar people just try to make a conversation, and familiar people may just express kindness and concern, who cares whether the movie is good or not, and where is it. It doesn't take long for the movie itself to be really discussed. My own preference is for genres that are realistic to tragic and even depressing, like The Wire and A Farewell, but for people who are naturally positive and optimistic, they are very observable. And I'm impatient by nature and have a natural rejection of slow-paced movies, which is why my reaction to "Blade Runner" and "Asia Minor" was flat at first.
Bias in evaluating things has consequences. I realize this because at some point I'm reminded of the Blade Runner scene where Rachael lets loose her hair and plays the piano quietly, and when she's about to leave, Rick suddenly leaves her to kiss her emotionally. The shots were very smelly, like the fragrant smell of old furniture in an old room, although I was very impatient with the slow, unintelligible melancholy at the time. On the contrary, some fast-paced movies that I liked at the time were empty-headed when I recalled them. Those complicated and quickly intertwined plots seemed to be full and rich at the time, but they were like "The light" in a quote from "Blade Runner". that burns twice as bright burns half as long", dissipated quickly.
If you insist on your own prejudices, and immediately deny or reject things and people based on first impressions, there will be no surprises when picking up memories. Admitting mistakes can also be a beautiful moment.
But realizing that prejudice exists is more difficult than overcoming it, because after all, people are self-centered and know their own feelings best. If you can give up the limitations of your personal vision and consider problems from the perspective of others at the moment of need, it will be very valuable. And giving up prejudice is also a means to alleviate personal negative emotions. Allfred Adler mentioned in "Beyond Inferiority" and Russell in "The Road to Happiness", think more about others and less about yourself.
On the other hand, all ideas to accommodate others is also extreme. So finding a balance between being comprehensive and objective and preserving individuality is a delicate endeavor. But there is another characteristic of aesthetics, that is, there are relatively recognized standards for good works, and there is no need to compromise when evaluating. Thinking of this, I began to look back at the movies I watched in the past two years. If I try my best to get rid of my personal prejudice and recommend it, there are two movies that I think are full and complete in terms of structure, content and performance. There is no particular preference emotionally. One is "L.A. Confidential" and the other is "Nuan Nuan Containing Light". The former is an impeccable commercial film, the conflict is intense but not abrupt, and the performances of the big names are forceful but appropriate. All the inadvertently buried thin lines are beautifully recovered, originating from the real and beyond the real. The latter is wonderful in that the strong personal feelings are blended into the exquisite conception without trace.

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The central topic of "Warm and Light" is memory. How can this not be an issue that resonates widely? No matter who you are, on the way to adulthood, there will always be nights of insomnia. When people are tossing around in the dead of night, there is no Internet or mobile phone to kill time. What is it that rolls around in your mind? what is it then? It's something that happened in the past. What type of memory is it? Depends on the person's situation at the time. People who are in love have to laugh out loud in their dreams, those smiles and those eyes, they close their eyes and turn over and think full of warmth. It's just that when the relationship is inevitably not over, the same thing, if you think about it after losing it, how sweet it was at the time and then how tortured it was, like the sharp teeth of a small beast biting patiently, finely and densely. It was like a rusty iron nail that was slowly embedded in the soft part of the heart, and then pulled out unhurriedly, the rough flesh dripping with blood. It's like smooth and clean paper, clenched into a lump with fists, no matter how hard you try to flatten it, it's full of desperate folds.
Not everyone can bear this kind of pain, so in the part that can be explored by imagination, with something like Lacuna Wangqing Clinic, you can delete all memories about a person, and if you can't remember it, you won't be sad. The hero and heroine in the film do this. But I have discussed with people that the matter of formatting memory is a bit complicated. Your memory of a person is not independent, and other people are always involved. If you have to clear it all, your life may be blank. If you remove that person, it must be very abrupt when you recall related things, and you feel as if a piece is missing, which is the so-called Déjà vu. It's not an easy decision, so the situations in which the hero and heroine make up their minds are different. Clementine is a casual, lively and emotional girl with strong emotions, so she ran away on impulse.
In this way, the film comes to a new conflict, the common memory shared by two people, one remembers, the other does not. What would you think if you were the one left behind? The pain at this time is not just the loss of the relationship, but "how can you do this?!" I know that the most painful moment of the parties in some breakup situations is not the separation, but the other person has a new relationship. The person you love the most is yourself, not someone else. You always want someone to accompany you to feel sad, someone who thinks you are important, someone who cares about you, but you don’t necessarily think that way for others. Another person's long-distance trip will completely shatter this illusion. You know that his heart is all about the newcomer's good, and he doesn't care about the past at all. If you still care about him, it is simply a big fool. At this time, all kinds of negative emotions such as puzzlement, anger, desolation, and despair will come to your mind, and people who are calm, introverted, and indecisive will be impulsive. If there is an option of forgetfulness at this time, he will definitely choose it out of a balanced compensation mentality.
At this time, Joal also came to Lacuna, and we also knew the specific method and process of formatting. First of all, we must collect and destroy all the items that have the common memory of two people, such as group photos, gifts, letters, and postcards. Does it look familiar? (It's really gratifying if someone does this, because he admits that these things are still emotional. And some people can turn a blind eye to ex's stuff, that's really letting go of callousness.) And then the process of sci-fi setting , connect a machine to the head, go to every brain cell and grab the physical form projected on that person's memory, whether it's an electrical signal or a chemical signal, and erase it.
It stands to reason that subjects should not be self-conscious about this process, and should be done after waking up like a stupor. But when Joal was operated on, something went wrong with the machine, so he knew we knew what was going on in his head. This part is the most emotional part of the viewing experience. Joal went back to the place where he and Clementine met, every situation they met, every detail of getting along, every sweetness, every quarrel, replayed scene after scene, but that was the moment when the memory of that scene was erased. The film uses beautiful shooting methods to show the form of memory destruction. What impressed me the most is that the two met on the edge of a small wooden house by the sea, sitting on the wooden steps and chatting. Later, in my mind, the night fell on the seaside, the tide came up, and it rose one step at a time, tumbling and swallowing the furniture, and the exterior of the cabin also crumbled and disintegrated, and finally collapsed, never to be traced again. .
When Joal's memory was retrospected, it was found that the quarrel and disagreement with Clementine certainly brought distress, but it was accompanied by attachment and sweetness. He didn't really want to delete the memory, and now he regrets it even more. He should not forget her, but When the program started, it was too late, so I could only take her in my memory to hide here and there, and hide her in the depths of the memory that the machine could not easily find. When the doctor in charge of the clinic was monitoring outside, he would sometimes say strangely, "Hey, where did you go? I can't find it." But the machine was so powerful that it finally caught it. Like unplugging the power plug, the TV screen snowed, and the memory of her became a humming noiseless blank.
They become two amnesiacs. Out of the subconscious of missing a piece, the two returned to the place they had agreed to before amnesia and met again. The next episode can be guessed. This is also an interesting question: if former lovers forget their mutual hurt, will they still fall in love with each other from the beginning? The movie gives the answer in the affirmative. Not only the main line of Joal and Clementine, but also a branch line that picks out the truth in an understatement, it can be said to be a genius. Mary's little mm admired her colleague Dr. Howard for a long time, and finally intervened in the doctor's family as a third party. It must have been exciting and sweet at the beginning, and finally had to compromise and give up. Under the pain, she chose to delete her memories of the doctor. But people's tastes and preferences are consistent. She likes a mature and stable temperament, and likes the doctor's profound talent. When they work together, she will definitely fall in love with him again.
But some relationships are born with obstacles and are destined not to end well. The fact that Mary fell in love with the doctor a thousand times couldn't change the fact that he was married, nor the feelings he already had for his wife, nor the weakness that he couldn't let go of his family. Joal is no longer willing to forget Clementine, and he can't fill the huge difference in the two people's personalities, and can't avoid the inevitable damage that will inevitably follow after the two people get along. what is this? This is Sisyphus' dilemma.
It would be fine if the reenactment of the tragedy happened unconsciously, and the question now is: what would Sisyphus do if he already knew the fate of the boulder to fall, and he could not resist the temptation to push it up the mountain? ? Will he gamble on luck and get scarred, or forget it?
Who knows? I don't know anyway.
This question is not unsolved. There was an old song on the mp3 called "Remember to Forget", which was very fresh and young, and gxj suddenly said, "You know what? In the study of the memory of fruit flies, scientists have found that the mechanism of forgetting is really It's 'remember to forget'. The conditioned reflex that has been formed in the neural circuit of Drosophila disappears by stimulating new nerve impulses and suppressing it, not just fades away naturally." What does this mean? People can do it if they try to forget. If Joal tried hard enough to forget Clementine's smile and their pact, if Sisyphus forgot the urge to push the stone, they wouldn't be hurt again. It's just that the price of forgetting is a peaceful life. Without deep sadness, naturally there will be no joy to remember. How to choose? This goes back to the topic of prejudice. People in different situations will have different views on the same issue. Different people need different efforts to forget the same thing. It's just that some people have a better memory, and have grown (chang second) in love for a little bit. This is also a kind of cursed.


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  • Roselyn 2022-03-26 09:01:01

    I didn't know what I saw when I saw it a few years ago, but now I have walked a long way and watched it again, and I shed tears. Memories can be deleted, but every experience has made us who we are today. Many people say they regret that they want to forget this paragraph completely, but it is so deep that the feelings you want to forget are inevitably inevitable. People who are attracted to each other will erase their memories and meet again at a different time and place, and they will still fall in love.

  • Dasia 2022-04-23 07:01:02

    Some of the scene designs are beautiful, but I have to say that it is difficult to arouse empathy due to the lack of emotional core. The concept has been shown since the opening subtitles. Even if the fantasy setting is absolutely rigorous, there is a question mark, and the emotional relationship between the characters cannot be traced. come out. In the end, it seems that this memory removal operation is useless, so is it insinuating and criticizing the problem of some institutions or businesses that do not live up to their names and deceive consumers?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes

  • Clementine: I wish you'd stayed.

    Joel: I wish I'd stayed, too. NOW I wish I'd stayed. I wish I'd done a lot of things. I wish I'd... I wish I'd stayed... I do.

  • Joel: I love being bathed in the sink - such a feeling of security.

    Clementine: I've never seen you happier, baby Joel.