Many of you have seen "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". If you haven't seen it, please, for the love of God. Rent it. It is Vanilla Swiss Almond good. Anyways, let's remember the brief: a man walks in to erase from his memory a girl he dated. Of course, down the line he doesn't want it, and proceeds to hide her in his deepest memories in order to escape his original plan.
I find this simply genius. Come on, face it. Don't you sometimes wish that procedure could be made? A bad memory, wiped out of your brain, forever. Lord knows how many stuff I'd erase and move on with my life, completely. Would you do it too? What would you erase?
I would wipe out:
• anything related to my dad. He sucks cat testicles.
• one or two guys who made my life a living hell.
• my memory of watching Planet of the Apes, Lord of the Rings (shut up it sucks), Final Analysis and of course, The Da Vinci Crap.
• one or two teachers in high school.
• everytime I've sweared at a presentation - what a humiliating moment.
• hundreds of ads I've done which, of course, my CD made me do.
• living in this apartment (only a couple of months left)
• my memory of getting swept under a huge wave - I have this fear of waves... you have no idea.
Oh well. Food for thought. Now it's your turn.
3 comments:
Not to be a beauty pageant answer hound, but I honestly wouldn't change a thing. I have been molded via heartbreak and triumph and eliminating anything, would fuck it all up.
Having said that, if there were things I could erase from my memory and for the good of this fucking planet, I'd choose Bush's election and Re-election, felt like Groundhog day for me. Apart from that, I think I'm good. I wouldn't forget one lost person, one traumatic experience, or one failure. I think it a chicken shit way of facing life even if I did adore this movie.
I agree with joker in the sense that every shitty thing you conquer in life is a lesson learned, makes you a better person (in most cases), and all that bull.
But then again, the idea is brilliant. There's always something you want to fucking forget.
I could perfectly identify myself with Jim. I would try to erase from my mind Mr P completly. But once the process started I would be running inside trying to hide and protect him.
I was going to say that I would choose not to erase anything, then it hit me - there is something I would choose to erase. 4 years ago we lost a pregnancy at 15 weeks (a much wanted baby girl) to a chromosome disorder. It was right at Christmastime too. While all my other crappy experiences/memories have surely made me who I am today, well, that was just one memory that I would just like to have gone.
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