What's your favorite stream-of-consciousness movie?
Stream of consciousness refers to the flow of consciousness. Including memories, fantasies and dreams. The film begins with Joel's intermittent inner monologue, in which he tells his feelings, personality and memory. "I am not a person who is good at chatting with women." He is deconstructing himself, which is a typical technique of stream-of-consciousness movies.
? One morning in February, Joel woke up and felt a little scared. He seems to have amnesia, forgetting why he is afraid, forgetting the paper torn from the sketch book, and even forgetting why he came to Montauk. In Montauk, he always met a girl with orange hoodie and blue hair. Joel was afraid to say hello. On the bus, another encounter, the girl announced herself. Her name is Clementine. Joel had a good talk with her, from blue ruin to Agent Orange.
Clementine called his blue hair "blue destruction", and the person who named his hair was called "agent orange", which sparked the words. When night fell, Clementine invited Joel to go home with him. Pretending to have a drink together, but actually having a good night. After three glasses of wine, Clementine snuggled up in Joel's arms, but he said he would have to work tomorrow. Joel is over thirty, but he still has a child in his heart. Such a speed of development is unacceptable to him. When he got home, he called Clementine, but you kept talking to me. Joel's love is so contradictory and simple. They are in love.
Two people lying on the thick ice studying the stars for no reason, Clementine suddenly left Joel. Clementine changed his phone number, and things changed overnight. Joel is confused. He followed the clue to a company that Clementine had been to. The fact is that this company has a unique technology-erasing people's memories. Joel was told that Clementine had erased all his memories. Joel was disheartened, and he followed suit. So technicians came to erase Joel's memory of Clementine. Memory is often the most unreliable, it makes you forget how good a person was to you. Memories are sometimes very reliable, and those unforgettable ones are always printed in my heart. The happy time with Clementine has faded away. It broke Joel's heart and he finally couldn't stand it.
In order to avoid the erasure of his memory, he hid in his subconscious. We followed Joel's subconscious and went to every past between him and Clementine. They can even be traced back to Joel's childhood, when Clementine disguised himself as his mother. Subconsciously, this can be understood as Joel's dependence on his girlfriend is like "Oedipus complex". This is the perfect combination of stream of consciousness and psychoanalysis. Everything that people hide in the depths of their subconscious mind is expressed in images. Man's consciousness failed to defeat the machine in the end.
? The film finally gave an open ending. Whether Joel and Clementine can continue, everyone has their own different answers.