A Master Piece of Modern Cinema

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2019)

Joel and Clementine a couple of young people very much in love, who after a hard fight end their relationship on Valentine's Day, Clementine wants to undergo a memory erasure process and upon learning Joel decides to do it too, the time of the story takes place between On Valentine's Day and the following day, the narrative time does not happen in chronological order, since Joel is subjected to the process of memory erasure, he regrets wanting to erase Clementine from his memory, during that process the cinematographic resource of the flashback, is used to tell us about the disorderly history of Clementine and Joel's love relationship, this builds the characters and develops a dramatic conflict. During the narrative time parallel to the story of Joel and Clementine, in the present tense the story of the staff of the clinic Lacuna, Mary and Stan, Frank and Clementine and Dr. Mierzwiak and his love affair with his assistant Mary, who is the cause of end of the reunion of Joel and Clementine.
The double temporality is certainly an excellent resource to penetrate more deeply into the interiority of the characters, especially since it keeps open the question about the effects of time on feelings. Being our main story line the story of the love of Joel and Clementine this is not narrated chronologically, using conflict as a starting point to learn the history of the protagonists through the use of flashbacks, until the end where the time of history and narrative time converge. History mixes genres as it is a love story, mixed with science fiction. At some point in the film the stories of the characters seem independent.