Memory is the keeper and treasury of all things-cisero

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2004)

The concept was great, and i must say I could relate to joel in this film-in more ways than one-yet perhaps my perspectives on these things is a little different than the average dating man--because for me, well this movie told a basically up to date version of my own. Funny how that works though.
I thought I was a little loopy when I started picking up on things in films that correlated to my own life--for instance quotes that are the tag lines of the movies, or in the case of another recent film--"identity" which for me had well all correct dates, locations, names, even meta-phorical stuff that perhaps I am the only one to understand. Then there is "the ring", Vanilla Sky, Anger management, and now in a funny post sort of way--the eternal sunshine movie. How does that work? You see, I saw "identity" while basically at the same time met a girl that lived near "the elfin forest" who reminded me very much of another one I loved and lost. This girl would describe herself as just a f---ed up girl looking for her own piece of mind. Anyhow I went on this adventure to find my memories again-and all the while the world was suddenly falling down all around me. So here are a few of the meanings you might not understand in the film---
at the beginning she says to call on valentines--well because in the same way in "identity" at the coke machine Paris asks for a quarter, and Rhodes drops it---well I should have called that valentines day. At the end of the film in the hallway there is a line, "I thought you were going to save me, will you wait for me?" This is because Joel had forgotten about something in his past-something he thought he might have to pay for. When Clementine left him, wrapped his car on the fire hydrant-that signifies 9/11. Believe me it does. At the beginning when there is the names definition conversation--well that is in reference to romeo and juliet---would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? --and notice how smell is one of the better triggers of memory. But how does the movie really end? Would they both rather spend their time alone? Does Joel go off to jail? Does the doctor end up loosing his practice? hmmmmmm--well stay tuned and I am sure shortly another film will come out to explain a bit more up to date detail about it all.