I just rewatched The Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind again, and I still love it. It’s such a pretty film and so so good. It asks the question; is it better to have loved, or to have never loved at all?

Many people wish they could erase the memories of past failed relationships, thinking that the pain, hurt, anger and so forth can be removed with it. But really, is it better?

I guess it’s hard to admit that relationships have to have the good and bad times, if you delve past the raw moments near the end. The mess, the tears, the hurt, the pain, the complications and the stale sensations - when you reach those precious moments from the beginning. The chase, the tiny small memories where you were laughing and smiling and felt on top of the world. Are those memories really worth the sacrifice to save yourself a little heartache?

And some people let their past haunt them, and stop them from ever moving on into a relationship thinking it will go the same way, that through means of your personality alone it is already destined to fail from the start - what can be different this time round that will make it last compared to the last time round? But if you never try, then you will never know? Is the risk of trying worth the possibility of something amazing?

Though I want to know, if two people were in a relationship and it went wrong, and then their memories were both erased of the whole thing - would they naturally still be drawn to each other again anyway? Do people become drawn together no matter what? Or is it all circumstantial? That everything has to be just right for people to be drawn and attracted to one another?

Maybe it’s a mixture of both, as in circumstances have to allow two people to get together, yet at the same time it would be nice (and very romanticist of me) to think that certain people will always been drawn towards one another eventually.

PS. My favourite photo I’ve seen today, it’s amazing…

This is such a good film - dark and full of fantastia.

It’s about a girl, Ofelia who is believed to be the returning soul of a princess for an underworld. I know it sounds a bit complicated, but it isn’t. There are other plots going on as well, but pah you just got to see it for yourself.

It’s odd, I seem to have watched loads of foreign films lately  - and they’ve all been goodd.

Yeah I’m knackered, sod writing more.

What a really really strange film.

Spoilerisms to come…

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“What does a scanner see? I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? I hope it does see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.”

Love-love the animation, the rotoscoping is awesome and the movement is wonderful - not sure if I really really like the style, but it does bring a lot of character to this film. It just allows for so much more surreality that you can’t just get from live action.

Storyline wise, a bit confusing and head-messy if you’re not on the ball, quite weird but good, I can see how it would have got adapted from a quite in depth novel. Worth a watch I think. It’s essentially based in the future and is about drug addiction of something called Substance D. I would talk about it more but it’s just one of those films you just have to watch.

Plus it sports a many Radiohead tracked soundtrack, so that’s always winner right there.