saml

Holy ***

 

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind… What a fucking awesome movie. Why can’t more movies be that honest. Isn’t crazy? The fears, the secrets, the memories we’re all protecting is all stupid childhood bullshit that all of us, every single on us, have. And when we say them out loud, sure it’s pathetic, but that’s childhood, we hurt and we didn’t understand. And our feelings; the situation at hand. Is so much less dramatic when you just tell it like it is. There so many layers of lies… Every word is a lie. Words just can’t… even when you think your being honest… there’s layers and layers of self-defense. Its self preservation: parts of our brain shut off to protect us from the reality of the situation; that we are stupid, we are animals, and we have no idea what the *** we’re doing on this fucked up planet. That is so scary… we’re afraid of life as it is because we will learn that life as it is, is only how we see it… That’s right everything you and I believe is twisted and turned to fit our own unique neuro-anatomies. It’s not that we exist completely alien of each other in fact we’re all so very very alike because we all have this futile commonality: we’re all lying to ourselves, just with different automatic responses from different circumstances and different memories.

The better you understand yourself, the better you will understand everyone else.

Published Dec 30 2007, 06:08 PM by saml

Comments

 

jordynt said:

This reminded me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave... ever read it? If you haven't you should and his basic idea (what the story is really about at its core) is that reality is all in what we perceive. When my AcaDec teacher taught it to us we (the class) spent a lot of time talking about "chairness" - that what we think of a chair as is not an actual chair, but the sketchy image of one we all have in our mind. Yeah, I know that's a really odd object to use to help describe Plato's idea of reality, but I like it. I like his idea that reality is really all in our minds, in our perceptions and thoughts and memories.

I agree that a lot of life, a lot of what we say and do, is a lie. Often, like you said, to protect ourselves. But I don't think it's impossible to be honest. I think it takes work and I think a lot of people don't even realize when they're lying, and that lying can be defined differently by different people, but I think being truly honest (especially with yourself and especially about your emotions) is a great thing, even if it does take some work.

December 30, 2007 5:42 PM
 

kalim said:

Wow. That is so thought provoking. Me and my friends are in fact going to be watching this movie soon..

December 30, 2007 7:48 PM
 

AmyG said:

Yeah, it's a near-perfect (and kind of underappreciated, right?) movie. Even the soundtrack. Changes your idea of Jim Carey, plus, I will watch anything with Mark Ruffalo in it. Then again, not the one where Reese Witherspoon is the ghost surgeon who sublets her apt to him...

December 31, 2007 1:11 PM