My Fave Movie & What Its About

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

A-MA-ZING

Joel & Clementine meet randomly at a beach party. 

They fall in love pretty much instantly.

They move in. Living in happiness and harmony...

For a while...

Then free-spirited clementine gets bored and Joel gets frustrated...

And they have an explosion, a breakup...

And Clementine hires a company to erase Joel from her memory. 

When Joel hears this, he is heartbroken, panicked, and freaked out. 

He decides to erase Clementine as well, since he can't go on knowing she's completely forgotten him and the life they had together. 

As Joel's memory is being erased, he is "asleep" but becomes aware, internally, that he doesn't want to erase Clementine...

And the movie re-lives their lives together, the good and the bad...

As Joel tries to "hide" Clementine in memories she doesn't belong in. 

When it becomes clear that he can't stop what's happening...and that she'll be gone soon, Joel realizes its better to have loved and lost. (At least that's what I take from it.) 

And Clementine says "Meet me in Montauk"

In a plot twist, the two actually meet on the train to Montauk, both unaware they were previously in love and lived together--since they erased each other...

But they discover the truth...

And the movie is left with the scene below, where they realize they want to be together but that there were reasons they broke up...

And there's no absolute answer as to whether they try again or not. 

The movie is trippy, emotional, beautiful, amazing. 

I am telling you--SEE IT. 

Ultimately, it doesn't matter does it? What happens next? Whether a relationship was perfect or not? 

It's about what someone MEANT to you, good or bad. 

And sometimes, it's better to remember it all--good AND bad.