Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind...
Not.
How could anyone possibly do it? I mean, I'm sure people consider it, and in a moment of anger and sadness, would say that they want to erase their memory of someone, but I fail to see how anyone could actually really want to erase part of their memory. I'm not typing quite coherently at the moment; got rather worked up by the show. I'm one of those people - who've said I think, at least a few times, that I want to erase some memories. Some things I'm terribly not proud of, and still wish vehemently I never did. But if you truly erase them, how do you know you won't do it again? How do you learn from a mistake which never existed?
It was so painful, watching Joel Barish's memories get erased one by one, and his powerlessness to stop it from happening. And then you think, can science really be that powerful over human emotions, the human consciousness? I mean true, somewhere deep in their sub-consciousness they both decided to go to Montauk on a 'whim' and met each other; is that then, the little part which retains a sub-conscious memory of the whole relationship, the whole experience? We'd all like to believe that the human brain has many depths which we don't understand, which can produce miracles previously unthought of. But is it really? They could have never met again. Their memories could have been lost to them both, forever and they'd never even know anything was wrong. As the optimist in me would like to believe, that wouldn't be possible - tampering with the course of nature would have undesirable results, and they'd know, somewhere deep inside, that something was wrong. You can erase the memory, but not the inclination, the inexplicable feeling of the moment.
And I'm rambling, I know. But I'm just a little shellshocked from the show. I'm just wondering how people can think that erasing memories and leaving a part of one's life blank is a good thing. The age old argument that ignorance is bliss? Well perhaps for some people, if they are originally that way, or if they truly choose to be. But ignorance, in some other ways, can just make people weak, lost, and well... perhaps in that case, empty, maybe.
Nevermind, I think I shall just go muse a little with these strange haphazard thoughts which I can't put very well into words and which I myself don't really understand. I only know I feel affected in some way, but how, I don't know.
Words are overrated, anyway.
:6:50 PM: :sugah~plum
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