Speaking of Kim Carey, I believe that the first impression of many audiences is exaggerated expressions and limbs, and Kim Carey, who has been immersed in comedy performances for many years, has left a classic comedy image for the audience, and his most memorable thing for me is indeed a fantasy romance film starring with Kate Winslet - "Warm And Warm With Light".
Released in 2004 with an IMDb rating of 8.3, the film was co-created by Charlie Kaufmann, a talented screenwriter who had created Become John Markovich, and Michel Gundrie, a talented director from France, and won the award for Best Original Screenplay at the 77th Academy Awards.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > three love stories that echo each other</h1>
The film mainly revolves around the love story of Joel, played by Kim Carey, and Clementine, played by Kate Winslet, and all love will be spent in sweetness and quarrel. After an argument, Clementine chooses to erase her memories, and her willfulness makes Joel even more miserable, and in the midst of repeated torments, Joel also decides to erase all memories of the two.
Under the action of the memory canceller, Joel experiences a time reversal with Clementine, he hides the sweetness and beauty after countless quarrels, in order to keep the love with Clementine, Yoel and the irreversible memory erasure began a tense chase.
The design of memory erasure is not a new thing in the current movie, and the domestic suspense film "Memory Master" in 2017 has also adopted the plot design of artificially erasing memory, but it is 13 years later than "Warm Inner Light".
If love is a formula, Michelle and Kaufman's attempt to tell the ultimate answer to love through this constant calculus of personal emotion and memory is beyond physical existence.
In order to make his formula look more convincing, the screenwriter did not let the story focus on Yoel's body, and on the night when he erased the memory, the two protagonists involved two other emotional lines, so as to prove that love is deep, the feelings will become part of the soul, only the memory is eliminated, and what cannot be eliminated is your love for that person.
Patrick, an employee of the Forgetting Clinic, fell in love with Clementine at first sight, he took the opportunity to help Clementine erase his memories, gained her love for Joel, used Joel's way to date Clementine, but never fell in love with him, Clementine is here as a person who has lost his memory, Patrick uses the kind of love method engraved in the depths of her soul, imitation does not make him become Yoel, Clementine although dependent on him, but this dependence is more from a familiar mode of getting along, Not love.
Mary, a young nurse at the Forgetting Clinic, and Stan, another employee who is responsible for erasing memories, have a crush on each other and come to Yoel's house to find him. The two entangled people ignore Joel's abnormal reaction, which allows Joel to find a way to escape the erasure of memory. As a result, the doctor Howard also rushes to Joel's house, and when Howard and Mary are alone, some inexplicable sparks suddenly occur between the two people, and they happen to be bumped into by Howard's wife.
When Howard's wife leaves, Mary apologizes to her, but she says that you once had him, and that's when Mary learns that she and the doctor have a relationship, and eventually chooses to escape from it by erasing her memories.
This paragraph is actually quite ironic, even the workers who erase memories have not been able to forget the instinct to fall in love with the same person by eliminating memories, let alone the male protagonist?
The male protagonist was eventually erased from his memory, but clementine, who had a memory, left him with a beach name, and the next day the male protagonist did not go to work, but came to the beach again and met the female protagonist again.
The director and screenwriter skillfully form an effective equation through the interweaving of these three love lines, proving the transcendence of love, even if you can eliminate the memory in the brain through physiological means, you cannot eliminate the gap that was once engraved for another person in your own heart, and that gap can only be filled by her.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > multiple narratives under the guise of science fiction</h1>
Although the essence of the story is still love, after all, it is cloaked in a layer of science fiction, plus the ghost screenwriter itself is willing to challenge those fantasies. The narrative structure of the whole film is full of flashbacks, interpolations and other narrative means, so that the film maintains a gripping viewing effect.
At the beginning of the film, Joel did not choose to go to work, but got on a train, went to a deep memory montauk, on this beach he met the heroine, here in fact, a reverse order of the method, the male protagonist was hit by clementine after the hangover, the sequelae of the elimination of memory made him think that the car was crashed by himself, Joel and Clementine met this scene, filmed like the first time two people met, again and again, and then took the initiative to talk, attract each other, It is natural to bring the audience a visual experience of the first acquaintance of the two.
The narrative progresses until the two people fall in love again, directly to the plot after the breakup, when Yoel is ready to erase his memory, from here he begins to use flashbacks to begin to present the love of the two people step by step.
When Joel first went to the clinic, Dr. Howard said that every memory has a memory core, and if this core is eliminated, the related memories will also be eliminated, and it can be seen from here that according to the main theme of the original film, what is really eliminated is not memory, but emotion, because the disappearance of emotions, the memory of building these emotions also collapses.
On this basis, the method of erasing memories is very cleverly designed, love mostly starts from sweetness, and then ends in constant quarrels, often in the last period of time, the unhappy memories of two people will be more and more, and worse and worse.
The use of such an inverted method of eliminating memories is easy to cause the first to eliminate those bad memories, at this time Joel's mind has more and more good memories left, and he can realize the beauty of the two people at the beginning, and begin to hope to retain the love for Clementine.
Through this fragmented narrative technique, the director shatters Joel's memory, but also shatters the audience's perception, so that the audience is more curious about the direction of the story, unable to move their eyeballs, in these broken memories, let every audience see that the good and bad of love are inevitable existence, and escape can never solve the problem.
When you choose to escape, those memories seem to be shattered by you in life, looking untraceable, but they are always in your life force to make you invisible.
So when they meet again, the two people know that they may experience those unhappy pasts again, but they are willing to fall in love with each other again.