From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

Joel was escaping, taking Clementine with him, running frantically through his shameful, unforgettable, and happy memories, exerting all his strength.

Frantic, unrestrained, and imaginative, like Peter Pan traveling through time and space.

However, the memory erasure was already in progress, and they had nowhere to escape.

Dr. Howard's intervention was extraordinary, always able to find Joel and the Clementine he was trying to hide in the deepest recesses of his memory, and the situation was finally brought under slight control.

Stan noticed Mary's gaze, constantly revolving around Dr. Howard.

He felt like he should be under a car.

So, Stan left the apartment under the pretext of going out for some fresh air.

Sure enough, Mary seized the opportunity and began to compliment and flatter Dr. Howard, completely unable to hide her admiration, rambling and unbearably excited like a young girl seeing her idol.

In the end, Mary couldn't control herself and directly threw herself into his arms.

But after kissing him, Mary immediately regretted it, holding her cheek with a face full of annoyance, feeling she shouldn't have crossed the line.

The doctor reached out and cupped Mary's cheeks, actively comforting her with a kiss.

Outside the window, this scene fell into Stan's eyes, filling his mouth with bitterness.

But what was worse was that another car drove over and parked by the roadside. When Stan saw it, he didn't even have time to worry about his sorrow and bitterness, and became panicked—

It was the doctor's wife.

She witnessed this scene with her own eyes, exchanged a glance with Stan, and gave him a hard punch, "Thank you, Stan, thank you so much!"

Stan fell to the ground, but the doctor's wife didn't linger, turning away broken and sad, returning to the driver's seat to drive away.

The commotion outside the window disturbed the night, and Dr. Howard and Mary were also alarmed.

The doctor rushed out, grabbed his wife's car, and tried to explain that he really came to work, one hundred percent, and he didn't know Mary was here too.

Subsequently, Mary also rushed out, trying to explain, shouting at the doctor's wife.

"I'm just a stupid girl who admires him, I forced him into everything, he was just half-willing."

The doctor's wife, who was about to leave, turned off the engine, pulled the handbrake, and stopped the car, looking at the doctor with a face full of mockery.

"Howard, don't be a monster, tell her."

Howard was stunned.

Mary, "Tell me what?"

The doctor's wife smiled bitterly, "Oh, poor child." Then she looked at Mary, "You can have him now. You once had him."

After saying that, the doctor's wife released the handbrake, leaving only the car's taillights flickering in the night.

Mary was puzzled, her eyes and expression filled with confusion.

Only at this time did Dr. Howard helplessly exhale, and then stammeringly and intermittently explained:

They once had a relationship. Then Mary eliminated the memory at the Forgetful Clinic and indicated that she didn't mind continuing to work at the clinic.

The doctor didn't have the heart to continue speaking about the remaining matters, nor did he know how to continue, vaguely swallowing it back into his stomach.

Then, using work as an excuse, the doctor returned to Joel's apartment.

Mary stood blankly in place, as if her soul had left her body.

Even when Stan came over to express concern, the focus in Mary's eyes was still scattered, without any light, and finally she silently turned and left.

So, can people really step into the same river twice?

The camera cuts, seemingly returning to Joel's brain world again.

But... really?

Blair expressed doubt: Joel's attire!

Suit and tie, neatly dressed, serious, rigid, and restrained; although Clementine still had bright red hair, that vivid and bright red was also slightly different, wantonly burning like vitality, and Joel's attire was completely different from his appearance in the movie so far.

A subtle but objectively existing difference.

It doesn't matter if you don't notice these details, because the atmosphere between Joel and Clementine is also completely different.

Wow!

Without a doubt, this is a movie like magic. The timeline is completely disrupted, and the barriers between illusion and reality, imagination and science fiction, are completely broken. The characters travel through different plots. It seems chaotic, but in fact, there is a framework and a main thread inside, unhurriedly and methodically stringing all the scenes together colorfully—

Yes, colorfully.

Strange adjectives, but perfectly fitting the unique temperament of this movie.

As the conversation progressed, the thoughts in Blair's mind became more and more turbulent. This looks like... it looks like when Joel and Clementine hadn't dated yet.

These conversations seem to be the exchange between Joel and Clementine, and at the same time, they seem to be discussing the tangled mess between Dr. Howard and Mary.

Who could have imagined? In the movie, the characters themselves break the fourth wall between each other, using the screenwriter's pen to string all the plots together.

Joel took the initiative to come to Barnes \u0026 Noble to find Clementine, finding Clementine who was organizing books.

Clementine was slightly surprised, "I thought you didn't want to see me again."

"You might feel embarrassed, after all... you fled on the spot."

Joel seemed restrained, not shy, not throbbing, just rigid and serious restraint, slightly cautious, it seemed that this was the real appearance between him and Clementine's encounter, "I just wanted to see you one more time..."

Clementine was different, generous, magnanimous, and bright, the volume, tone, and tonality of her speech were completely different, "And then?"

Joel, "I wanted to, uh, ask you out."

Clementine, "You're married."

Heck!

The entire Angelica Film Center was stunned, as if everything they knew had been overturned, completely not knowing what was going on:

Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?

Completely stunned!

They watched the entire movie, but didn't know what was going on in front of them, and never felt so clearly that they seemed like a fool:

Joel is married? When, to whom, what is the marital status?

It was not easy to learn from a few words that Joel had been dating a woman named Naomi, but married? It was never mentioned.

Wait, are Joel and Clementine re-enacting the scene of Mary and Dr. Howard?

In a short moment, thousands of thoughts flashed through their minds, and their breath was cut off for a moment, and the audience was silent.

Joel shook his head lightly, "No, not yet. I'm not married."

Angelica Film Center: Phew...

Clementine turned around, aggressively stepping forward, so that Joel's footsteps continued to retreat, "I'll make things clear, I'm very serious. I won't interfere in your marriage, no matter what you think."

"If you want to be with me, then be with me."

Resolute, straightforward, drawing a clear line early—

If this was the real memory of the initial acquaintance between Joel and Clementine, then it would be completely different from the scene on the train at the beginning of the movie.

It's not Clementine pursuing Joel, but Joel pursuing Clementine.