Eternal Sunshineof the Spotless Mind: Darkness Abounds
January 29th 2007 07:30
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The CIA is messing with my mind. I am sure that's why I watch and keep watching stupid movies even when I know what will be in them. Like Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind which I watched last week, having nothing better to do. The movie was so transparent I could see through its shenanigans even before the movie ended.
This paranoia about CIA messing with minds has yielded plot points for many a feature film and novels now. The earliest novel I can remember is Shapes of Sleep by J.B.Priestley, the usual lib-trash. And there are a raft of movies from The Cell to Deja Vu and not too mention, Goodbye Lenin. Well, it's not just the CIA but the paranoia of the Brotherhood always starts and ends with CIA, so when we mention CIA you can also include capitalism, greedy corporations, police investigators and any other appurtenances except the Welfare Department.
The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind tells the story of a man whose girlfriend has not only left him but also has erased every memory of his using a chipper technology which can erase selective memories. Feeling aggrieved, the man wants to erase his own memories. Surely a technology which can selectively erase memories should be a state of the art technology. But, the first thing you notice is that it is offered by an unknown company staffed by members you can count on your fingers and generally gives you the impression of being a garage start-up. Meaning, this sort of memory manipulation is di rigeur.
The man is told to collect every little thing that might remind him of his girlfriend and destroy those signs and then take a sleeping pill and sleep. During the sleep, the technicians will do their stuff and when the man wakes up, he won't remember his girlfirend any more, not even that he has requested the memory erasure. The technicians who do it are very irreverent about the job and even have sex while they are at it. The man is subliminally aware of their conversations and his subconscious decides to put up a fight and hide his memories where they will not look for them. Elsewhere, his girlfriend still dimly remembers the romance and as the erasing operation is doomed to failure, you know the lovebirds will be back together.
The man then is your typical garned variety liberal and the woman is his utopia. No matter how hard the explosion of corporate greed tries to erase the memories of the utopia from people's minds, our brothers will fight hard to keep the memories alive and once the memories are in tact, they can always get back, the tiffs don't matter. Do not give up the dream of the stateless utopia just yet. Keep dreaming.
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