I watched this film last year with my ex. Incredible movie. Made our breakup a lot longer and harder than it needed to be. But at the end of the day, it taught me that the love we shared was real and genuine on both sides, despite how it ended. I can see why the writers of Rick and Morty love this movie so much now. It's criminally underrated. I used to be the kind of person who would allow hate or revenge to dictate how I felt towards a relationship that had ended, thinking it would make it easier to get over those people. It did not. I'm glad I got to watch this movie, because now I can actually see the small- and sometimes big- glimpses of beauty that was shared between me and those people. I no longer feel the need to degrade them in that way, which honestly is really beneficial for my emotional & mental wellbeing. Does it mean that I miss them & want them back in my life? No. I just accept that the good times didn't mean nothing, no matter how it ended. Them good times (as well as bad times) helped shape into the person I am today. And in all honesty, I can't think of a better outcome to come from that.
This is one of my favorite movies. The actors all do incredible jobs(Winslet essentially has to play three versions of the same character). The visuals are an amazing mix of practical and digital effects and the story although it pulls from science fiction elements is grounded in a way so many works are incapable of
I like to think Joel and Clementine's relationship does endure by the end. The way I see it, the reason they kept repeating the cycle of breaking up, then deleting each other from their memories, only to come back together again and again, is because every time they restart their relationship, they go into it blind. Even though both are able to wipe one another from their minds, the same qualities that drew them to each other are still present in their subconscious, which pretty much guarantees their relationship would reset whenever they bump into each other. At the end of the movie, Kirsten Dunst's character blew the whistle on the whole memory wipe operation and as a result, both Joel and Clementine learn how their past relationships came apart. At first this revelation dissuades Clementine from seeing Joel anymore, but Joel convinces her to give them another shot. I am of the belief that despite all the pitfalls of their past lives together, both Joel and Clementine realize just how fragile things are when they are together, but also how much they can't live without each other. This would have prompted both of them to learn from their past mistakes, and this would have ensured things don't fall apart again.
It’s just a wonderfully unique film. I love how it effortlessly conveys to the audience that as painful as the end of a relationship can be, it’s important to experience that pain to evolve and grow from it. Merely wiping the mere memory of someone you love won’t solve anything. There’s a vast difference between erasing someone from your head and from your heart, as we seen from Kirsten Dunst’s character and Joel and Clementine. When they found each other again, they started over again.
I was... SO surprised that I LOVED this movie. I had no, none, zero, desire to watch Jim Carrey's exaggerated acting style or Kate Winslet's inevitable nude scene, so I passed it by at the theatres, and swiped past it on streaming lists. Then, one day, I think I had just broken up with someone, I was at a low point, so I clicked on it in a nadir of self-loathing. I could not look away. It was an entire color-wheel of emotions, and an over-generous slice of life. But. It wasn't a theory... a FOOD theory - just a memory I don't want to forget.
This is one of my top five favorite films! Your analysis captures all the beauty of the movie and the last line says it all. Thank you JoBlo for doing this video. More like this please!
Besides Carrey and Winslet, I think Kirsten Dunst should also be given her flowers for her role. She played the bubbly receptionist Mary who was madly in love with Dr Mierzwiak. Even though she was just a side character, her story had as much depth as Joel and Clementine. She also plays an important role by the end of the movie where she becomes disillusioned with her job and decides to help Joel and Clementine remember their past times together, thus ensuring they end up in a good place with each other and won't repeat the same mistakes as before. But unlike the two leads, Mary didn't have as much agency when it came to her own memories being wiped. Mierzwiak pressured her into forgetting their affair in order to save his marriage. Mary's story reminds me of young women who are naive and idealistic that get taken advantage of by men who are already in a relationship with someone else, but leads them on and make them think they will leave their significant other for them. It never happens, and they eventually get their hearts broken and are forced to forget (in Mary's case literally) about the man they love.
i don't think mary sent the tapes to fix any relationships she just wanted revenge on howard so she sent out the tapes to everyone who did the procedure also i think you're being delusional in thinking that every girl who gets with a married guy is innocent or naive some are manipulate trash who purposely go after married men because they can while those men deserved to be punished too so does the girls who have relations with married men
Well she mentioned that he was the only man who wasn’t interested in her and ignored her, hence why she started to like him. He in no way ever tried to take advantage of her. While I agree with most of your analysis, that statement is absurd and ignorant.
This is one of my top 5 al time favorite films. No, I don't enjoy that concept... that Joel and Clementine *repeatedly* erased their memories of each other, over and over. I think that, once they were told about the memory erasure, they were so shocked and weirded out by that--- I think they were mad at themselves AND at each other, for erasing each other. And I think THAT is the lesson they would have learned--- that even if they broke up again, after getting back together... I don't think they'd willingly put themselves through that again-- they'd keep those memories because they would know from that first time, how lost and confused they felt afterward, without those memories. PLUS, the memory clinic was RIDDLED with scandal... Elijah's character was violating all sorts of boundaries by dating a patient--- Ruffalo's character literally *parties with a girl* in a patient's home.... the married surgeon slept with his much younger receptionist--- and once those case files got sent out in the mail, I think action would have been taken and that clinic would be shut down-- and even the practice of erasing memories might be so scandalized that it would be outlawed. Thus, the memory erasing option would no longer be available to Joel and Clem, after the events of the film.
One of my top favorites. I agree they keep doing it and never get it right. When the credits are rolling and you see them on the beach, they keep resetting every few moments.
That doesn't make any sense though if Mary exposed her boss & the Lacuna company? She gave those tapes back to everyone who ever went there, not just Clem and Joel. Even if the two of them went and did the memory wipe process again, it could only theoretically be for so long until the company is shut down by those who wish to expose it.. Also, I'm pretty sure the two of them repeating the process was cut from the movie's original script. As in, the original script entails a completely different movie than what we got.
You missed the biggest point though.....that just because a relationship or marriage didn't last doesn't mean the other person is a bad person, it means it just didn't work out, hating the other person doesn't make it easier to get over them, if anything it makes it neatly impossible to move on because hate takes significantly more energy, time and effort to ruminate nafarious plots of revenge.....my parents loooooove the blame game. They will furiously argue whose fault something is and at no point is the issue or problem or even a winner ever found, it's just ten years of that blame game episode being still fought about...and I think the blame game especially in this movie was the major issue, and see how stupid it looks on other people? And it feels even stupider on you
I think in some instances hate is really an easy way out cause it relieves one from taking some responsibility of why the relationship may have ended. In some instances hate is a disguise from really looking at a relationship for what it was and where you went wrong. Sometimes it's easier to play the victim card and let yourself think that the person you where dating was the one who was a mess, the victim card paired with an illusion of hate feels comfortable enough because it lets us get away from conftronting ourselves or questioning where did we go wrong
I view the theme as being about the idea of enjoying love in the moment, holding onto memories good or bad that really mean something, and that you need to find someone who you can love beyond the honeymoon phase. Because resetting a relationship isn't going to fix anything in the long run if you forgot everything you learned along the way. Unfortunately, for those of us in reality, there is no reset operation. And the fact is, that permanence holds a greater value than what you would gain from it's loss.
I feel like they aren’t stuck in a loop. I feel like for a relationship to work you have to choose your partner each and every day. Through every hardship and good time. Idk maybe that’s a more positive view but I do think it’s a choice.
Such an amazing story. Jim and Kate played the roles perfectly. I really like how they stayed away from special effects. Like the scene where Joel as a child is under the table, it's an optical illusion. This film made me hate Elijah Wood.
I don’t think Joel and Clementine could’ve deleted memories of each other more than the one time shown in the movie, because Kirsten Dunst’s character mailed back all of Lacuna’s files back to each customer. Joel and Clementine should then have learned about every time they had memories erased by Lacuna. BTW would Lacuna have deliberately erased all of a customer’s memories about Lacuna itself? That would make it less likely for Lacuna to get return customers.
There's a scene in the movie where mary is talking to a customer on the phone something along the lines of you cant have the procedure done 3 times in a month unless customers re learn bout the services to re use them for other things
God I love this movie. Me and my mom watched it together, and whenever we hear the name Patrick we both look at each other and go “Patrick, baaaby boy”. I spent the whole movie trying to guess what it was, and I finally yelled “THE BEGGING OF THE MOVIE WAS THE END!!!!”
You see, I didn’t interpret Clementine as the love of his life at the end. I felt that they knew they would break up in the future but chose to enjoy their happy times together anyway
I agree with the "better to have loved and lost. . . " Buy now to get spicy..... I don't think they end up happily ever after. I don't think.that was the point. I think it was more that experience was important.
The procedure that Joel & Clementine have is not surgery. Why is it described as that in this video? Is that the only way the Kier Gomes could communicate what was happening to them? It’s a memory erasing procedure. Surgery involves cutting into a person’s skin. No such thing occurs in this film.
Your description of the plot is backwards and is actually a spoiler. We don't fomd out about the memory erasing until the end of the movie. The whole story is about how two people who erased each other out of thelr lives are somehow still drawn to each other, an attraction that is hard to understand how. Its amazing movie and one of my all time favorites.
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Them breaking up over and over is not a theory; it was how Charlie Kaufman originally wrote it. Michel Gondry modified the screenplay and also removed a sex scene between Joel and Naomi which didn’t fit the tone of the film. It is worth buying and reading the official screenplay if you are a fan. It makes for a neat collectible item at the very least. Cheers!
Naah this guy is just based@@muhkintosh24 most normal people don't act like Joel, and someone with a personality like Clems would neverrrr date someone like Joel if you really stop and think about it. The movie's best moments tho really are something else imo. Especially that under the covers scene or the parade scene.
Jim is the definition of a real actor.
Jim performance was outstanding❤
I watched this film last year with my ex. Incredible movie. Made our breakup a lot longer and harder than it needed to be. But at the end of the day, it taught me that the love we shared was real and genuine on both sides, despite how it ended. I can see why the writers of Rick and Morty love this movie so much now. It's criminally underrated.
I used to be the kind of person who would allow hate or revenge to dictate how I felt towards a relationship that had ended, thinking it would make it easier to get over those people. It did not. I'm glad I got to watch this movie, because now I can actually see the small- and sometimes big- glimpses of beauty that was shared between me and those people. I no longer feel the need to degrade them in that way, which honestly is really beneficial for my emotional & mental wellbeing.
Does it mean that I miss them & want them back in my life? No. I just accept that the good times didn't mean nothing, no matter how it ended. Them good times (as well as bad times) helped shape into the person I am today. And in all honesty, I can't think of a better outcome to come from that.
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I'm going through this and I'm 15, met her 5 years ago, man I'm just so lost sometimes.
Kate Winslet deserved an Oscar for her performance.
They both did.
Exactly !!!
It should've got Best Picture.
They both did. This is the best movie ever made about relationships between damaged people.
This is one of my favorite movies. The actors all do incredible jobs(Winslet essentially has to play three versions of the same character). The visuals are an amazing mix of practical and digital effects and the story although it pulls from science fiction elements is grounded in a way so many works are incapable of
I like to think Joel and Clementine's relationship does endure by the end. The way I see it, the reason they kept repeating the cycle of breaking up, then deleting each other from their memories, only to come back together again and again, is because every time they restart their relationship, they go into it blind. Even though both are able to wipe one another from their minds, the same qualities that drew them to each other are still present in their subconscious, which pretty much guarantees their relationship would reset whenever they bump into each other. At the end of the movie, Kirsten Dunst's character blew the whistle on the whole memory wipe operation and as a result, both Joel and Clementine learn how their past relationships came apart. At first this revelation dissuades Clementine from seeing Joel anymore, but Joel convinces her to give them another shot. I am of the belief that despite all the pitfalls of their past lives together, both Joel and Clementine realize just how fragile things are when they are together, but also how much they can't live without each other. This would have prompted both of them to learn from their past mistakes, and this would have ensured things don't fall apart again.
I agree with you completely. That’s how I saw the relationship too.
Yup. They both see that their flaws are worth working through, appreciating instead of running away.
It’s just a wonderfully unique film. I love how it effortlessly conveys to the audience that as painful as the end of a relationship can be, it’s important to experience that pain to evolve and grow from it. Merely wiping the mere memory of someone you love won’t solve anything. There’s a vast difference between erasing someone from your head and from your heart, as we seen from Kirsten Dunst’s character and Joel and Clementine. When they found each other again, they started over again.
It's been 3 years since I watched this film, i didn't understand, i re-watched it today.
I think I love it more than ever before.
It became one of my fav movies ever after the second time watching lol. It's that good !
Jim Carrey proves he can do dramatic work really well from this film, Truman Show, and The Majestic
And Cable Guy, and Man on the Moon!
Despite being pigeonholed as a 'funny man', Carrey actually is a very talented actor who is good at picking film projects with interesting premises.
I actually prefer him in a more serious role; he absolutely shines through!
I was... SO surprised that I LOVED this movie. I had no, none, zero, desire to watch Jim Carrey's exaggerated acting style or Kate Winslet's inevitable nude scene, so I passed it by at the theatres, and swiped past it on streaming lists.
Then, one day, I think I had just broken up with someone, I was at a low point, so I clicked on it in a nadir of self-loathing.
I could not look away. It was an entire color-wheel of emotions, and an over-generous slice of life.
But. It wasn't a theory... a FOOD theory - just a memory I don't want to forget.
Kate isnt naked in this film.......... You are thinking of Titanic lol
Your closing line summarizing the movie hit me like a bus. I’m going to be reflecting on that thought for a while.
This is one of my top five favorite films! Your analysis captures all the beauty of the movie and the last line says it all. Thank you JoBlo for doing this video. More like this please!
Besides Carrey and Winslet, I think Kirsten Dunst should also be given her flowers for her role. She played the bubbly receptionist Mary who was madly in love with Dr Mierzwiak. Even though she was just a side character, her story had as much depth as Joel and Clementine. She also plays an important role by the end of the movie where she becomes disillusioned with her job and decides to help Joel and Clementine remember their past times together, thus ensuring they end up in a good place with each other and won't repeat the same mistakes as before. But unlike the two leads, Mary didn't have as much agency when it came to her own memories being wiped. Mierzwiak pressured her into forgetting their affair in order to save his marriage. Mary's story reminds me of young women who are naive and idealistic that get taken advantage of by men who are already in a relationship with someone else, but leads them on and make them think they will leave their significant other for them. It never happens, and they eventually get their hearts broken and are forced to forget (in Mary's case literally) about the man they love.
i don't think mary sent the tapes to fix any relationships she just wanted revenge on howard so she sent out the tapes to everyone who did the procedure also i think you're being delusional in thinking that every girl who gets with a married guy is innocent or naive some are manipulate trash who purposely go after married men because they can while those men deserved to be punished too so does the girls who have relations with married men
Well she mentioned that he was the only man who wasn’t interested in her and ignored her, hence why she started to like him. He in no way ever tried to take advantage of her. While I agree with most of your analysis, that statement is absurd and ignorant.
One of the best films of all time !! Very original !
And I didn't know one of my other favourite films was by the same guy, Being John Malkovich
@@pigeonpoo1823 omg same here !! Two of them are very very high on my list of favorite films of all time
@@pigeonpoo1823 spike jonze directed Being J. Malk and also Her, very original films
This is one of my top 5 al time favorite films. No, I don't enjoy that concept... that Joel and Clementine *repeatedly* erased their memories of each other, over and over. I think that, once they were told about the memory erasure, they were so shocked and weirded out by that--- I think they were mad at themselves AND at each other, for erasing each other. And I think THAT is the lesson they would have learned--- that even if they broke up again, after getting back together... I don't think they'd willingly put themselves through that again-- they'd keep those memories because they would know from that first time, how lost and confused they felt afterward, without those memories.
PLUS, the memory clinic was RIDDLED with scandal... Elijah's character was violating all sorts of boundaries by dating a patient--- Ruffalo's character literally *parties with a girl* in a patient's home.... the married surgeon slept with his much younger receptionist--- and once those case files got sent out in the mail, I think action would have been taken and that clinic would be shut down-- and even the practice of erasing memories might be so scandalized that it would be outlawed. Thus, the memory erasing option would no longer be available to Joel and Clem, after the events of the film.
One of my top favorites. I agree they keep doing it and never get it right. When the credits are rolling and you see them on the beach, they keep resetting every few moments.
That doesn't make any sense though if Mary exposed her boss & the Lacuna company? She gave those tapes back to everyone who ever went there, not just Clem and Joel. Even if the two of them went and did the memory wipe process again, it could only theoretically be for so long until the company is shut down by those who wish to expose it..
Also, I'm pretty sure the two of them repeating the process was cut from the movie's original script. As in, the original script entails a completely different movie than what we got.
You missed the biggest point though.....that just because a relationship or marriage didn't last doesn't mean the other person is a bad person, it means it just didn't work out, hating the other person doesn't make it easier to get over them, if anything it makes it neatly impossible to move on because hate takes significantly more energy, time and effort to ruminate nafarious plots of revenge.....my parents loooooove the blame game. They will furiously argue whose fault something is and at no point is the issue or problem or even a winner ever found, it's just ten years of that blame game episode being still fought about...and I think the blame game especially in this movie was the major issue, and see how stupid it looks on other people? And it feels even stupider on you
I think in some instances hate is really an easy way out cause it relieves one from taking some responsibility of why the relationship may have ended. In some instances hate is a disguise from really looking at a relationship for what it was and where you went wrong. Sometimes it's easier to play the victim card and let yourself think that the person you where dating was the one who was a mess, the victim card paired with an illusion of hate feels comfortable enough because it lets us get away from conftronting ourselves or questioning where did we go wrong
One of my favorite Films of all time, I love this movie!
A true love story Masterpiece! Love this film.
This was great analysis! Hope to see more of this type from JoBlo! 👏🏽 🔥
I watched this film because Jim Carrey starred in it, and the film was featured as a UA-cam free movie.
Lightning in a bottle! One of my favourites since release! 👌😁
I need to rewatch this movie. It's so good, but I've forgotten a lot of the detail.
This film and the film Contact with Jodie Foster are my two favorite films of all time
I view the theme as being about the idea of enjoying love in the moment, holding onto memories good or bad that really mean something, and that you need to find someone who you can love beyond the honeymoon phase. Because resetting a relationship isn't going to fix anything in the long run if you forgot everything you learned along the way. Unfortunately, for those of us in reality, there is no reset operation. And the fact is, that permanence holds a greater value than what you would gain from it's loss.
One of my favorites. Teach me something new here.
Beautiful description
I feel like they aren’t stuck in a loop. I feel like for a relationship to work you have to choose your partner each and every day. Through every hardship and good time. Idk maybe that’s a more positive view but I do think it’s a choice.
Such an amazing story. Jim and Kate played the roles perfectly. I really like how they stayed away from special effects. Like the scene where Joel as a child is under the table, it's an optical illusion. This film made me hate Elijah Wood.
I don’t think Joel and Clementine could’ve deleted memories of each other more than the one time shown in the movie, because Kirsten Dunst’s character mailed back all of Lacuna’s files back to each customer. Joel and Clementine should then have learned about every time they had memories erased by Lacuna. BTW would Lacuna have deliberately erased all of a customer’s memories about Lacuna itself? That would make it less likely for Lacuna to get return customers.
There's a scene in the movie where mary is talking to a customer on the phone something along the lines of you cant have the procedure done 3 times in a month unless customers re learn bout the services to re use them for other things
God I love this movie. Me and my mom watched it together, and whenever we hear the name Patrick we both look at each other and go “Patrick, baaaby boy”. I spent the whole movie trying to guess what it was, and I finally yelled “THE BEGGING OF THE MOVIE WAS THE END!!!!”
This movie is so beautiful
Depression, that's what's all about
A true masterpiece
Masterpiece ❤
Absolute banger of a movie
Jim Carrey Is Legend
You see, I didn’t interpret Clementine as the love of his life at the end. I felt that they knew they would break up in the future but chose to enjoy their happy times together anyway
I agree with the "better to have loved and lost. . . "
Buy now to get spicy.....
I don't think they end up happily ever after. I don't think.that was the point.
I think it was more that experience was important.
Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York; Adaptation; Being John Malchovich
Just watched tonight
The procedure that Joel & Clementine have is not surgery. Why is it described as that in this video? Is that the only way the Kier Gomes could communicate what was happening to them? It’s a memory erasing procedure. Surgery involves cutting into a person’s skin. No such thing occurs in this film.
I watched it just a few days ago.
Your description of the plot is backwards and is actually a spoiler.
We don't fomd out about the memory erasing until the end of the movie.
The whole story is about how two people who erased each other out of thelr lives are somehow still drawn to each other, an attraction that is hard to understand how.
Its amazing movie and one of my all time favorites.
Although this on the surface is analysis, you have to ignore some scenes to make some of it to work.
I wish Michel Gondry could have another chance
*Jane Carrey was born in 1987. Daughter*
*Ginger Gonzaga was born in 1983. Girlfriend*
*CATHRIONA WHITE was born in 1985 girlfriend* ➕ *28 September 2015*
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*Jim Carrey's message to Emma St0ne was in 2011*
I have no clue why the cover on the dvd calls this a comedy
Them breaking up over and over is not a theory; it was how Charlie Kaufman originally wrote it. Michel Gondry modified the screenplay and also removed a sex scene between Joel and Naomi which didn’t fit the tone of the film. It is worth buying and reading the official screenplay if you are a fan. It makes for a neat collectible item at the very least. Cheers!
Never saw it 🤷♂️
Primer nest
"Surgery"?.?
Great actor. His personal life is disgusting.
This movie is not as deep as it thinks it is. If it doesn't make you cringe, you're as shallow as a kiddy pool
I hope you figure how to enjoy things. ❤
Naah this guy is just based@@muhkintosh24 most normal people don't act like Joel, and someone with a personality like Clems would neverrrr date someone like Joel if you really stop and think about it. The movie's best moments tho really are something else imo. Especially that under the covers scene or the parade scene.
This was a weak analysis.
Word.
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