Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing memory, love, identity, technology.
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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