Chapter 1322 Memory Chasing Light
Dazzled and overwhelmed——
The movie is like a high-speed rotating light top. The colorful halo forms a whirlpool of light and shadow, sucking everyone in the Angelica Film Center into it. They are dizzy in illusion, memory and reality, and their imagination breaks through boundaries and walls. face, walk freely.
In the past, the timeline was disrupted, and the past, present, and future were intertwined. Later, the space barrier was broken, wandering between reality and memory.
On the other hand, Stan and Patrick, two staff members of the Forgetfulness Clinic, arrived at Joel's apartment and began to delete the Clementine parts of Joel's memory one by one.
Patrick, the clerk who had been hiding his true face, finally revealed his true identity. He was the baby-faced one who knocked on Joel's car window at the beginning of the movie; obviously, Patrick didn't like Joel and had been attacking and complaining about Joel's apartment. , trying to belittle Joel.
Intermittently and fragmentedly, the conversation between Patrick and Stan broke through the barriers of the "memory erasure machine" and echoed over Joel's memory world like a voiceover. Patrick finally revealed the answer:
He fell in love with Clementine while erasing her memory.
So, he took advantage of Clementine's weakness, stepped in to fill the vacancy, and started dating Clementine. He was the "person" hiding in the shadows when Joel went to the Barnes & Noble bookstore to look for Clementine. New boyfriend".
All the clues are connected in series.
On the other hand, Joel entered his own memory and sifted through the memories bit by bit in a retroactive way. All memories related to Clementine were deleted.
First is the Forgetting Clinic. After all, he went to the Forgetting Clinic because of Clementine. Stan, Mary, and the doctor's memories were all erased.
Then there is the last memory of Clementine before she disappeared on Valentine's Day, the night before Clementine left in anger and chose to completely erase Joel.
Clementine showed up, with a bright orange-pink hairdo, but as dirty and greasy as a dry mop, drunkenly collapsed on the sofa, and told Joel that she had scratched his car. Injured——
The serious scratch on the car door that was completely dented was not from a neighbor, but a mark left by Clementine when she parked the car while pressing the safety catch.
Huh!
The Angelica Film Center collectively exclaimed, including Blair.
What if the scratch on the car door that Joel saw at the beginning of the movie did not happen first, but happened after the two people broke up and after Clementine and Joel both erased their memories?
Wait, wait, how should the timeline be arranged?
Blair didn't have time to think deeply. She had been completely involved in this time and space storm, as if she were a tiny existence standing on the earth looking up at the entire universe.
Karen looked at Blair with confusion on her face: Obviously, she had not kept up with the rhythm, but she could not be blamed, because the amount of information was so huge and turbulent that it was stuffed into her head with a roar, and it was really overwhelming.
Moreover, the movie is obviously deliberately disrupting order——
In the camera, for a while it was focused on Stan and Patrick, and for a while it was focused on Joel; for a while, the current Joel appeared in the memory space of the past, coexisting with Joel, and for a while, Joel, who was immersed in the memory, could hear Stan and Patrick again. Voice-over interference of dialogue.
Memory and reality are intertwined, the present and the past are parallel, rapid editing and switching completely break the order of time and space, the amount of detailed information is exploding, the whole world is spinning at a high speed, making it difficult to keep up.
Blair patted Karen's knee gently, telling her to calm down and watch the movie first.
The focus is so intense that even the slightest lapse in concentration may lead to missing the point.
Joel and Clementine have an argument.
What makes Joel angry is not that Clementine crashes the car, or that Clementine comes back at three o'clock in the morning, or even that Clementine's drunk driving may hurt others and herself, but that Clementine is loose and indulgent. lifestyle, the differences between them are gradually widening.
Clementine reveals to him that he's worried that she might have someone else out there.
Instead, Joel calmed down and said calmly with a disappointed tone, "Look, Clay, I assume that you had sex with someone else tonight. Aren't you used to making others like you like this?" The whole audience was silent.
Even Karen covered her mouth, because this is how Joel and Clementine fell in love, Clementine invited Joel home late at night to drink, and even invited Joel to stay the night, but now Joel Attacking Clementine's weapon, he considers her to be a random woman.
Time, press the pause button at this moment.
There was silence on the big screen. Neither Joel nor Clementine moved or even made eye contact.
Outside the big screen, there was silence, with only the roar of engines on both sides, and the rough grainy texture of the picture made people inexplicably sad.
One second it was happiness and sweetness, the sweetness of deer bumping into each other and heart pounding; the next second it was a late-night quarrel, hurting each other with blood.
How did they get to this point?
The film completely disrupts the narrative sequence and the presentation method of the whole story, which completely releases the powerlessness and lamentation and suspends time.
Clementine left, furious and without looking back.
Although Joel chased her away, apologized and tried to stay, it was of no avail; in the end, it turned into anger, and he angrily stated that he would also delete his memory and completely erase her from his life.
The Joel of the past and the Joel of the present overlapped silently.
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Then, Joel returned to the river of memory, followed Stan's operation, and reviewed their quarrels, their alienation, and their frictions in flashback. Those trivial things had long been buried in daily life and sent out signals to let them know a little bit. A little distance.
And, it's more than that.
Clementine wants to get married and have children, she wants to have a future; but Joel doesn't think they're ready, and Clementine doesn't think so.
"You're not ready."
This gave Joel pause, "Do you really think you can take care of a kid?"
One sentence ignited the powder keg, and the two men started arguing in Chinatown.
However, not everything is catastrophic.
Going back in time, there are less quarrels and more sweetness.
Joel still remembers the day Clementine dyed her hair orange. Clementine was so happy, dancing around the room with her arms spread out, like a child who owned the whole world.
That day, they lay under the quilt after a vigorous exercise, just like children hiding in a quilt castle with a little world of their own.
"Joel, am I ugly?"
Joel still remembered the vulnerability and uneasiness in Clementine's eyes. The sunlight penetrated the quilt and the warm orange light fell on her face; but he felt as if he had seen an angel.
(End of chapter)