Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Essay
"There's No Breaking True Love"
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie written by Charlie Kaufman, shows the true power of love. The two characters, Joel and Clementine take drastic actions to forget each other, but are brought back together. No matter what happens, true love will always find a way to work out. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a story about true love and how two soul mates cannot stay away from each other. Joel and Clementine meet on a train that just left Montauk. They seem to have this connection right away. Clementine acts very open to him for just meeting him. She sits next to him and asks him personal questions. Joel almost seems bothered by her or thinks she's strange for what she is saying …show more content…
Joel and Clementine not only broke up multiple times, they got each other erased from their memories and still managed to meet and fall in love. We know they are soul mates by how Joel acted when his memories were deleted, and how Clementine acted when Patrick tried to reenact Joel and Clementine memories. "It is better to have loved and then lost to have never loved at all," this is a famous quote that Alfred Lord Tennyson once said that many people live by. Joel realized this while his memories were getting erased. He tried so hard to keep them, because he didn't want to forget the good times. He was grateful for them and at least wanted to retain them instead of not remembering what they went through. To try and save Clementine in his mind, he jumped to old memories, and even woke himself up which was very rare to do, the people doing the procedure had never seen that before. Clementine was dating Patrick and one night they went to a frozen lake and Patrick said the exact same thing Joel said when they were at the same location. Something clicked in Clementine's mind that what she had with Patrick was not right. She realized there was someone else out there for her, which is Joel. They both subconsciously say in their mind, "Meet me in Montauk." This is because they remember to go there since that is where they originally met, now that is where they continue to meet for the "first
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie written by Charlie Kaufman, shows the true power of love. The two characters, Joel and Clementine take drastic actions to forget each other, but are brought back together. No matter what happens, true love will always find a way to work out. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a story about true love and how two soul mates cannot stay away from each other. Joel and Clementine meet on a train that just left Montauk. They seem to have this connection right away. Clementine acts very open to him for just meeting him. She sits next to him and asks him personal questions. Joel almost seems bothered by her or thinks she's strange for what she is saying …show more content…
Joel and Clementine not only broke up multiple times, they got each other erased from their memories and still managed to meet and fall in love. We know they are soul mates by how Joel acted when his memories were deleted, and how Clementine acted when Patrick tried to reenact Joel and Clementine memories. "It is better to have loved and then lost to have never loved at all," this is a famous quote that Alfred Lord Tennyson once said that many people live by. Joel realized this while his memories were getting erased. He tried so hard to keep them, because he didn't want to forget the good times. He was grateful for them and at least wanted to retain them instead of not remembering what they went through. To try and save Clementine in his mind, he jumped to old memories, and even woke himself up which was very rare to do, the people doing the procedure had never seen that before. Clementine was dating Patrick and one night they went to a frozen lake and Patrick said the exact same thing Joel said when they were at the same location. Something clicked in Clementine's mind that what she had with Patrick was not right. She realized there was someone else out there for her, which is Joel. They both subconsciously say in their mind, "Meet me in Montauk." This is because they remember to go there since that is where they originally met, now that is where they continue to meet for the "first