It leaves their next ending in our hands the audience gets to decide what happens. After spending well over a hundred minutes to show us just how their relationship is going to end, it leaves us with an uncertainty about their fate. Do they weather the storm this time and learn from the mistakes that they don’t even remember they made? Or do they go through the same loop all over again, and eventually find it best to stay away from each other permanently? How does it end? The film leaves this decision on the audience. The film doesn’t tell us what eventually happens to them. And yet, they decide to go through with it. Both of them know that the cycle will repeat once again and they will end up right back to the painful separation that had previously led them to erase each other’s memories. Both of them know how the relationship had turned out previously. This is what comes to mind when we see Joel and Clementine saying “okay” to each other, in a scene that gives off as much hopelessness as it makes us hopeful about them. How would you expect a different result from them? But then, it is the same person, doing the same thing, wired to make the same decisions all over again. We fret over the mistakes we made, and the regrets we have, and we wish for another chance to do it all over again and do it differently. Humans, inherently, have the tendency of wanting to redo things. What does it mean for Joel and Clementine? In the final scene, we see both of them back at the Montauk beach, playful and happy. They are ready to risk the pain in the future for the happiness they feel with each other right now. Eventually, they decide to be together and see how things turn out, despite their knowledge of the previous results. Both Joel and Clementine listen to their tapes and realise that they have been in a relationship before and it ended so badly that both of them got their memories wiped because of it.Īs Clementine walks away, Joel asks her to stay and ponder upon the reason why they should be together again and risk another heartbreak. A twist comes when both of them receive a mail from Mary, who has left her job at Lacuna and has sent all the files to the respective clients. This brings us back to the beginning of the film, where we see him go to the Montauk beach and meet Clementine all over again. In the end, Joel’s efforts to save something of Clementine in his mind doesn’t work and his memories are completely wiped off. As the world falls apart around him, he desperately tries to save some part of Clementine deep inside his mind, somewhere that he can keep her safe and remember her the next day. However, as the procedure begins and he relives all memories, both good and bad, he starts to have second thoughts about it. Discovering that she chose to not remember him anymore, Joel is heartbroken and decides to do the same thing for himself as well. Joel and Clementine had been in love, but then their relationship deteriorated to the point where Clementine decided to have Joel’s memories removed from her mind entirely.
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