Analysis Of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

1) The plot of the film, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” begins with Clementine and Joel sharing a train ride. They have a past together but neither remembers it. Joel a rather introverted type of guy meets Clementine a rambunctious young lady with green hair on a train ride. Although they do not realize that they had shared a life together, they eventually fall in love around Valentine’s Day. Their love eventually begins to fade, and Joel and Clementine both at different times have their memories erased. First Clementine, erases her memory of their relationship. As the plot thickens, Clementine’s hair color becomes tangerine. This becomes a nick name given to her by her new boyfriend as she seems to transition from her old self to her new self. Joel finds out what she did and also sees her with another man and begins the process of erasing his memory of Clementine. Joel realizes during his memory erase process, that he still loves Clementine, but the process is almost finished. Yet Joel has just enough memory left to include Clementine in his memory and together they remember their past and the love that they both shared. In the end they find themselves on the beach where it all begin and where they first saw each other.
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In doing the right thing for the right reason there is moral obligations. There are motives for what people do. The films “The Black Mirror” and “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” both in the end seemed to do the right thing for the right reason. In both films trust was broken between people, and in both films Utilitarian’s would probably feel that consequences was morally right. In the Black Mirror, a family was destroyed, people were hurt, but the truth came out in the end. In The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, relationships were erased, but in the end the consequences was fair setting aside whether or not the actions committed were for the