After Mary (Kirsten Dunst) has mailed the cassette tapes containing the Lacuna, Inc. Aspects that have originally been considered as an adorable personality quirk become ammunition to use against each other during fights laced with hurtful barbs.
The meet-cute is instantly followed by the bitter breakup, which is jarring no matter how many times I have seen it. Not much attention has been paid to quality or coverage, it has simply been done to cover up what was once there.īecause of the non-linear structure, the course of this relationship is portrayed in an unusual and at first disorientating fashion. It's a way of washing that man out of her hair, but with literal color instead of figurative shampoo. A haircut or a dye job to mark a new period of your life is pretty standard Joel is her passion color period, post-Joel is blue to match her mood. She puts Joel’s uncertainty down to the ever-changing hair color, noting “I apply my personality in a paste.”įrom a story continuity point-of-view, Clementine’s hair clearly delineates which timeline we are watching the past is red and orange, the present is blue. Her hair is the topic of conversation during their train conversation at the start of the film - the second time they meet for the first time - Clementine ponders aloud about the career path one has to take to get a job naming hair dye shades she has already come up with “Agent Orange.” Or is this the name of the color she sports when Joel is her boyfriend, but it has since been erased from her mind? As they chat on the train, Clementine wonders if they have previously met, before determining their paths likely crossed at Barnes & Noble, where she works. Nevertheless, it likely holds a deeper meaning as she chose to wear it for a meeting arranged through whispers within his memories. Maybe she didn’t feel a significant attachment toward Joel and this sweatshirt? Perhaps it reminds her of something else entirely, or she wanted a keepsake that wasn't obviously about Joel.
Joel has not been able to banish this item as it wasn’t at his apartment and because we are only experiencing Joel’s erasure procedure, it remains unclear as to why Clementine held onto this garment. But even when you remove a memory, clothing still finds a way to draw links between the past and present.Ĭlementine’s bright orange hoodie is significant because it was what she was wearing when they first met - on both occasions. Mierzwiak's (Tom Watson) revolutionary work is trying to achieve.
This is an act of remembrance, the opposite of what Dr. Memories attach themselves to an object or item of clothing for any number of reasons a shirt can act as a memorial, as a way to feel closer to someone who is no longer there.
0 kommentar(er)
