Modern Love

Modern Love

Contemporary relationships fit perfectly with today’s life style of the masses.

Today’s life is quick, materialistic, straight to the point, and overrated. There are even

those that depend on a computer to find them their long time partner. Personally, I

find this to be an absurd idea, just like in the movie entitled Eternal Sunshine of the

Spotless Mind from 2004 with Jim Carey and Kate Winslet, where the two main

characters use science fiction technology to erase memories of each other. First of all,

such technology does not exist, and second of all even if it did; those who would use it to

wipeout their former dreadful recollections would live their lives in a constant denial.

That is what happened to Joel played brilliantly by Jim Carey and Clementine his feature

partner.

Both men and women in today’s world want everything for nothing; the easy

way (Lytesedge, 1). Couples these days want to forget about the negative life

experiences and move on with a hope of finding someone better; instead of, trying to fix

their relationships or even learn from their mistakes. Joel and Clementine are perfect

example of a modern-day couple living in a big metropolitan place like New York City,

were feelings run low, love is superficial, and no one has the time nor patience to care

enough for the other person. In a major part of the movie, Joel decides to follow his ex-

girlfriend’s example and gets his memories of her erased in a clinic called Lacuna Inc.

However, at certain point Joel either consciously or unconsciously changes his mind

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while under the procedure, and he tries to preserve some memories of Clementine and

him together. The man [Mark Ruffalo] performing the act of memory-erasing on Joel at

one point even states that, “he [Joel] seems...