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The film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind focuses on the interesting topic of retentivity. The film follows cardinal main characters, Joel and clementine tree, who have some(prenominal) chosen to erase part of their repositing. What both characters, and other characters in the movie, receive kayoed though is that our depot is complex and very flexible to what we key of it. The film reflects the tendency that we have as humans, to think that we be in control of our memory. The truth is that our memory is not like a film tape of the events in our lives nor is it a library of the knowledge we have collected. As I watched the movie, I couldnt help but think our memory is more like a ball of trunk. Our minds can take the clay and make it into a mildew and we can st are at that shape and know that shape but our minds will play with that clay and square up it into something different eventually. The idea portrayed in the movie is that no memory is safe from our meddling minds. The film emphasizes on the power of our long-term memory and our episodic memories. Would we be happier if we forgot ab pop traumatic historical experiences? Or are our long-term memories so tangled up with emotions and sensations that our brain is unable to really let go of long-term memories? The film also looks at the dissimilitude between explicit and implicit memories. Although the film plays out in non-linear onward motion and is somewhat confusing at times, the audience quickly catches on to the plot. Joel and Clementine are in a relationship for two years before finally deciding to break it off. Like most couples, the two divided up a lot of good memories but the fights that lead to their breakup were alike emotionally heavy for free-spirited Clementine to bear any more. She pays some futuristic company ... ... to look past all the terrible things in their past and they chose love again. This film challenges the audience to actively get involved with the two ch aracters, Joel and Clem. We see both characters try and take control of their memory. First by undergoing the procedure and then especially when Joel tries to keep his memories of Clem. But the characters find out that memory is more complicated than we think it is. We can mold out memories, change our memories, repress our memories and remember things we didnt even know we experienced. In some ways, the writers challenge us to think about our own memories. If we were give the chance would we erase some of our painful memories? I think we are unable to detangle our memories. I think that our memories are stacked and tangled with severally other and deleting or tampering with those memories is dangerous and unnatural.