The beauty and contentment of this moment is diluted when Patrick tries to take Joel's place and re-create it with Clementine. However, he does get to relive it a second time after his and Clementine's meeting in Montauk, even though he does not know he has done it once before. This is one of Joel's happy memories with Clementine that he desperately wants to hold onto, but Dr. I'm just exactly where I want to be." - Joel Barish, 00:53: 34 Ultimately, for Mary to really move on, she has to accept the past, deal with it, and let it go. Mierzwiak's procedure only takes Mary backwards into naivete, when she was a young girl in love with her boss. The difference between a baby and an adult is years of growth and experience, and Dr. She realizes that for her, "begin again" just means that she is going to make the same mistakes. Mierzwiak's patient, though, she is not so complimentary. Mierzwiak's procedure, which is probably tied up in her romantic feelings for him. On a superficial level, Mary supports Dr. It's beautiful, you look at a baby and it's so pure, and so free, and so clean, and adults are like this mess of sadness and phobias, and Howard just makes it all go away." - Mary Svevo, 00:48:58 "It's amazing, isn't it? What Howard gives to the world? To let people begin again. In comparison, Joel tells Clementine that he is perfectly content when they are lying on the Charles River together (for the first time) - but unfortunately, this beautiful moment is flushed away with the hurtful ones. He screams that he is happy, which he is clearly not. There are moments of contentment and happiness that Joel cherishes, and he can only see them when the "piece of shit story" has melted away into Dr. However, as his memories start to crumble and fade, he realizes that he's made a mistake. She is impulsive and erased Joel because she was angry with him, and he then did it out of hurt and spite. This is the root of Joel's decision to erase Clementine. Clem! Did you hear me? By morning, you'll be gone! The perfect ending to this piece of shit story!" - Joel Barish, 00:38:39 I'm erasing you, and I'm happy! You did it to me first. "Look at it out here! It's all falling apart. There is something that will keep driving them together, despite the eradication of any physical evidence. This promise exists on a higher plane than journal entries or CDs. Even though he fails to stop the procedure, Joel and Clementine make a subconscious pact to meet in Montauk. Mierzwiak and his team to erase Clementine from Joel's mind. Although it is easy for Joel to grab all of the physical objects that remind him of Clementine and throw them in a garbage bag, it is not quite so easy for Dr. Mierzwiak equates Joel emptying his home of Clementine to Joel emptying his life of Clementine, which is the inherent problem with his procedure. You want to empty your home, you want to empty your life, of Clementine." - Dr.
We'll use these items to create a map of Clementine in your brain, okay? So we'll need photos, clothing, gifts, books she may have bought you, CDs you may have bought together. Barish, is go to home and collect everything you own that has some association with Clementine. "Now, the first thing we need you to do, Mr. However, these tandem impulses end up driving Joel and Clementine back together because even though they are gone from each other's minds, they remain in each other's hearts. Joel, who has clearly been effected by Clementine's spontaneity, decides to do the same thing, as a reaction to his hurt. She acts on her anger towards Joel and erases him from her memory, without stopping to think about the effect this will have on her life. One of the first things we learn about Clementine is that she is impulsive. One of the first things Joel reveals about himself is that he is not impulsive (he says this when he has a strange desire to run off to Montauk). She decided to erase you almost as a lark." - Carrie, 00:27:38 "What can I say, Joel? You know Clementine.