The part I enjoyed most about this movie was how it was a modern love story. The reality of their relationship compared to movies like Nicolas Sparks movies or romantic comedies is a lot more realistic and practical. They started out with the initial attraction towards each other, got into a relationship, started fighting, broke up, realized they love each other, and even after they got their memories erased, they still wanted to be together. Thats what (realistic) true love is. Being able to push through the problems, work it out, and handle each other is what love is like now because in the world we live in today thats what you have to do. There are no fairy tales. There’s no princess who falls in love with the prince and they end up together because they have a magical kiss in the end. There’s real people, who develop feelings for another person, and if they’re lucky the feelings are reciprocated. Like in Moulin Rouge “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
Something that I thought was unnecessary was how Clementine’s hair was so outrageously colored. I understand that they were trying to make her different, but I felt like that was too over the edge. Her personality is strong enough, and so outspoken that they don’t need to make her physically appear different. She could have been an average looking woman and still come across the same way. Personality isn’t about the way you look, its about how you act. So, even in a movie, how a character appears does matter, the way she dressed and acted was so apparent and it demonstrated who her character was, so her colorful hair was unnecessary.
The movie at one point had me thinking “wtf” because it got kind of trippy. The scenes going back and forth in time really confused me; however, I understood the scenes and what was happening by the end. The way they showed him going through time when his memory was being erased was really interesting. I really liked how he would tell Clementine they needed to leave in the middle of a memory because he wanted to remember everything. My favorite line of the whole movie is when he’s laying on the ice with her and he tells her he doesn’t want to forget that particular memory. It really stood out to me because they had already gone through so many memories, and out of all of them thats the one he truly wants to remember. I think it shows how after we make a decision, in the middle of our mistakes is when we genuinely know we have messed up. Its funny how he tries to maintain his memories by going to his childhood memories to keep Clementine. When he acts like a child under the table, but looks like a fully grown man, was great because he was so caught up in his memory he was acting so childish and she was so confused and just wanted him to get out from under the table.
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