eloisa to abelard

how happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
the world forgetting, by the world forgot.
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

i know a good movie when i see one. and i just saw one. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is an ingenius visual imagery of the old sayings "happiness is a state of mind" and "it is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all."

it's very tragic to see joel running away in his mind, trying to hide clementine so that her existence in his memory does not get erased. kinda reminds me of that one episode of that 70's show where eric just broke up with donna and an angel came down to help him realize that it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. like the christmas carol, the angel took eric to see the past, the present, and the future, but failed to convince eric that the pain he suffered from breaking up is trivial compared to the pain he has to suffer through had never felt the love. eric insisted the angel to wipe out all the memories, but when the angel was about to do so, all the sweet memories came back to mind in a jolt, and he changed his mind. the angel disappeared, leaving eric in his room, speechless.

joel: this is it. the time has come. we're going to get erased.
clementine: what do we do now?
joel: enjoy the last bit of it.

also the fact that joel and clementine were once in love, then decided to have their memories erased, but in the end even scientific advancement could not overcome the fate that brought them together, kinda reminds me of the 100% perfect girl story by haruki murakami. thanks to jemo for linking it.

it is a sad story, isn't it?