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In Korean movies, sadness and aesthetic beauty are the classic models for many works to shape love. A pair of handsome and beautiful heroes and heroines, a tortuous and moving love process, a painful ending, the love between them is incomparably strong, but the tragic way is different.
Summing up these, it seems that we can have a certain immunity to the tragic components in these films, but when we see "The Eraser in My Brain", we are still choking in our throats, tears, unconsciously falling into it, unable to extricate ourselves, which is a kind of touch created by the ordinary, a kind of touch from simple life.
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There is no plain record of intense conflict
Compared with other vigorous romance films, "The Eraser in My Brain" is actually a very plain film, there is no fierce contradiction and conflict, there is no tension suspense, and the film records the accumulated love bit by bit in a relatively slow rhythm.
From the misunderstanding of acquaintance to the subsequent marriage, the film does not let So-jin and Jeol-so go through many detours. Soo-jin loves Jeol-so, and his father loves Soo-jin, so the family doesn't put too much pressure on the two of them, and the princess and the carpenter get married smoothly. After marriage, the two people lived happily. The wife helps her husband prepare a loving lunch; helps her return to his childhood inner world to open the knots of many years, let him give up building a beautiful house for her, and use the money to rescue the mother he once hated, so that Je-so has maternal love again; support him to obtain an architect's certificate so that he can realize his ideals in his career; the husband also uses the rest time to transform the kitchen into his wife's favorite look, help her change into a gas stove that can automatically extinguish the fire, lest she forget to turn off the fire and become dangerous; After bankruptcy, he made a model of his wife's house to cash in on her imagination of a new home.
Zhang Ailing once said: "The greatest happiness in life is to find that the person you love is also in love with yourself." While Soo-jin and Jeol-so are bathed in the happiness of loving and being loved, Alzheimer's is taking all this beauty away. We suddenly understand that the peace that the film gives to love at the beginning is to be cruelly deprived later, and the little happiness without twists and turns is also to not set more signposts for their love.
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Gifted memories
Xiu's real forgetfulness became more and more obvious, and she actually forgot the way home, forgot that her husband was sitting next to her, forgot the glue she applied before turning around, and even forgot her marriage, and regarded her ex-boyfriend as the person she loved the most. She said to Chul-so, "Little by little, my memories are disappearing. Jeol-so is a stubborn man who doesn't like to express his feelings romantically, but in the face of this lover who is about to forget everything about him and treat him as a stranger, he says to So-jin: "If you forget, I will tell you little by little." Let me be your memory. "But the cruel thing is that memories can only be taken away, but they cannot be given.
Jeol-so strives to prepare various "canes" for Soo-jin that can evoke memories, hoping that they will not let his wife go too far. In Soo-jin and Je-so's hut, we see that the room is full of colorful stickers with the purpose of the items and the memories of the two, and in The slowly disappearing memories of So-jin, no one knows how long the power of these hints can last. We followed XiuZhen as we watched one by one, her expression hard and strange. When we saw the names of Soo-jin and Jeol-so marked under the wedding photos of the two, we suddenly felt how cruel the colorful room was! Can memories that have been posted in all corners of the house really be sent back?
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Memories erased by the eraser
Jeol-so made a badge for Soo-jin, wrote her name and address, and in the face of So-jin's affectionate eyes and misplaced titles, Je-soo also responded affectionately, but after going out, he finally couldn't help but cry, and couldn't help but look back, and looking at the glass window again would eventually only be a beautiful woman with a beautiful shell.
Mr. Lu Xun once said in the novel "Wounded Death": "People must live to love in order to be beautiful." For Jeol-so, the facts that follow are that Soo-jin will continue to lose his memory, then lose his ability to take care of himself, and finally lose his life. Everyone understands the heaviness of this life, so Soo-jin returns to his father's house and asks his father to persuade Jeol-so to give up on himself. However, just as he did not easily agree to get married, Chul-so did not give up lightly. He picks up Shu-jin, who has urinated incontinence, and wants to bring her back to the lives of the two of them.
Seeing this, we suddenly feel that the unfortunate Xiu is really the happiest, she forgets the person she loves deeply, and even confuses who she loves, the memory is constantly erased by the eraser in her head, but the person who loves her is as always, the love is so strong, so strong, so strong, so strong, Soo really can't bear to let Chul-soo see the disappearance of her memory, she wrote to Chul-so: "Because of forgetfulness, we met; and because of forgetting, we have to be separated..." Soo-jin desperately grasped any moment when the memory emerged and recorded it in words.
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The last paradise
In the flustered expression before parting, we see that Xiu is really painful, even if there is no romantic and gorgeous expression, her heart can appreciate The love of Jeol-so, but this feeling of happiness will slowly disappear with the fading of memory, she will forget all the beautiful situations, forget his and her stories, and even forget who he is; And everything she writes now may be regarded as someone else's story tomorrow, and the inextricable love will be difficult to return. In the days of losing the news of Soo Nao, Chul Soo has been living in pain. Until one day, he unexpectedly received a letter from Xiuzhen. In the nursing home, Xiuzhen's memory seems to be a flash of inspiration, she remembers her love with Chul-so, so she writes to him, telling him how to love him and let him rest assured of his life, forget himself, and find someone he likes to live happily for a lifetime.
Finding the clue, Je-so meets Soo-jin again, but is treated as a stranger, as So-jin said earlier: "If you lose your memory, my heart will disappear with me..." With tears in her eyes, Tetsu-so takes So-jin to the convenience store where they first met, So-jin's parents, sister, Je-so's mother and master, and even the doctor who treats So-jin are here, their smiles summon Soo-jin's memories, and Soo-jin asks movingly, "Is this heaven?" Jeol-so couldn't bear to interrupt her beautiful feelings and replied, "Yes, in heaven!" At the end of the film, we see So-jin snuggled up on Jeol-so's body, embracing the little wooden figure he had sculpted for her, and driving away in a convertible with her beloved.
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Successful character design
The character development of this film is relatively successful. Generally speaking, in this kind of pure love film, the character's personality is more likely to be overwhelmed by love, and in "The Eraser in My Brain", the personalities of So-jin and Jeol-so are very distinct.
Xiu is really an innocent person, she believes in love, once disregarded the world's opinions, and a husband with a wife, she dared to take back the Coke that "belongs to herself" in private years, and drank it provocatively; she did her best, even begging her father to help her colleagues in the company solve the difficulties; After discovering that she and Jeol-so are in love with each other, she offers to get married, without emotional mannerisms or financial preconceptions. After marriage, she is not limited to the happiness of the two-person world, but persuades Chul-so to give up the house she built and find her mother's love after a long absence. When such a beautiful, kind girl is tortured by amnesia, everyone experiences sadness and intolerance in this ruthless destruction.
In contrast, the image of Chul-soo is more realistic, his family is poor, he did not have the care of his parents since he was a child, and he developed an independent and stubborn character. He works hard and improves his life by his own efforts. When he encountered a love with obvious asymmetry in the economic strength of both parties, he did not cling to it, and he did not easily commit to marriage. Because he is a responsible person, he knows that Xiuzhen can have a better choice, and if he loves, then choose to make her happy. After marriage, he is a family-oriented man, even if he does not know the reason for his wife's forgetting, he never complains, but from his wife's point of view, to help her do what she has to do. After learning of Xiuzhen's illness, he was even more inseparable, silently making various cards for his wife, and when the wife mistakenly regarded others as himself and stared at her affectionately, he did not remind her; finally when facing his wife who was completely amnesiac, he obeyed the etiquette of meeting for the first time. It can be said that personal experience makes Zhe very aware of the cruelty of life, but he actively chooses to bear it for love, which makes us increase our respect for this man when we find him cute.
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Successful detail handling
The film also shows the power of detail. Special perfumes that evoke memories, small stickers hanging in the room, pages of portraits with blurred faces, and carefully carved wooden figures all constitute the power to touch people's hearts in the film. The film also presents the complex emotions of the characters in an unusually delicate way, when Soo-jin looks at the cards that Chul-so made for him at home, and sees that the photos of the two people are actually marked with names, she panics and feels guilty, and the unbearable expression is so heart-wrenching. When Jeol-so looks at the amnesiac So-jin looking at herself affectionately but calling out someone else's name, Je-soo smiles at the pain and pain that seems to be within reach.
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Definition of memory
Some people say that Korean dramas have a tradition of "trial mourning", like to play with grief, and love stories are mostly exchanged for tears from the audience in exchange for car accidents, terminal illnesses, and amnesia. The film "The Eraser in My Brain" is of course sad enough, but after the grief, it gives people a strong warning power. How should memory be defined in terms of the emotional world of man? I remember the film "East Evil West Poison" said: "Many people's biggest trouble is that their memory is too good, and many times if they can forget it, then it will be happy." "But if the content of forgotten cannot be chosen, then who else will actively forget?" Unless all thoughts are gray, such as Liu Yue'e in "Hedong Lion Roar"; or out of revenge, such as Kretin in "The Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind", but in any case, it will be a tragedy of love. So we think of cherishing each other, thinking of mutual tolerance.
If love will grow old, will there be no courage to love, if the memory will fade one day, should we cherish each other from this moment.
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epilogue
Like many Korean romance films, the film tells a pure love story, the story withdraws from the cold, blunt real life, the camera is only aimed at the emotional world of the protagonist, and creates a love story that is not vigorous but touching in the plot with ordinary and simple.
With love, there is life, I am born for you, you are my everything. But within a similar narrative framework, "The Eraser in My Brain" still uses its own way to make us remember it.