Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine

I watched the new movie with Jim Carrey. I must admit he has a charisma that makes any movie shine, even if the theme itself is not the most inspired. I do not know if this is the case.

The idea turns around a possible technique to erase our undesirable memories. Well, suppose that one day it becomes a reality and we have a girl tired of girlfriend's face looking for a clinic and asking them to forget it, literally. The consequences are not so difficult to imagine. From it I take three conclusions:

First: movies are currently making some sort of subliminal brainwashing, something that, without paranoia, would make a good theme for a movie about the fourth power and the media in general. Each film that suggests a plausible future reality is, even if unintentionally, preparing his audience for a situation when fiction one day will become reality. A movie like Signs makes that if a few years we contact aliens it does not seem so absurd. And not just Signs. Contact, Aliens, Enigma of Another World, and even not Independence Day and Men in Black do this: prepare humanity for the day of real contact. And they make that amazing discovery, such as spacecraft do almost daily in the sky, pass undetected because no dazzling from the movies' point of view. A computer like Hall 2000, from "2001: A Space Odyssey", makes our modern Pentium seem old valve radios, while even Bruce Willis in "The Siege" has not been able to prepare us for a September 11. But in general, the movies flatten the ground, leave the work more manageable.

In the field of medical advances, a highlight is Vanilla Sky, trying to prepare ourselves for the day of our immortality. And Tom Cruise tries again to prepare for the day that dominate the extra-sensory powers, in Minority Report. This, with Jim Carrey, try doing the same, though very quietly, very subliminally.

My second conclusion: that if one day we have available a feature like that, it would actually no use more than a cardiac defibrillator or a medical ultrasound  monitor screen. I do not know if normal people would want to forget something, even undesirable. Sure, there are traumas that must be forgotten, but what's the point you forget a bad relationship, a bad boss, a bad day? I think really, we are our memories, and not without reason that a blow to the head that makes one forget all that life is lived is a bizarre event considered of a medical point of view, and thus this citizen does not  has a personality, from the social point of view. He has a past, it is true, but only in the others  minds. He, from himself,  is a no one: a simple blank slate. We are what we are exactly because we are the sum of our good and bad memories. Who would not be surprised when you hear an old song, reread an old book, watching an old movie, meet a face long forgotten, travels back to the places long forgotten, rereads a yellowed forgotten letter in a drawer somewhere? Even a bad memory that will be remembered in these cases is still welcome. So...

I make my third conclusion: that our problem is not a  forgetfulness machine. This we already have: the time. Just wait and all will be forgotten sooner or later. Our problem is the opposite. We need a machine to remember. We need to dig deep into our minds and find out, put saved forever all what a day we live, even if when we put saved on a sheet of paper, in a journal, in a speech with our grandchildren and even in our blogs, why not? Imagine the day when we have a remembrance machine. Sit back, pay your session and have good memories! And save them on video! Show the world what you really lived!

When this day will come?