The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1328 Perfect Loop
Silence, soundlessness——

Watching quietly as the villa fell apart and turned to ashes.

Quietly watching the memories of Joel and Clementine being swallowed up by sand and sea water and finally disappearing into darkness, the happiness, sadness, joy, and quarrels, all without exception, disappeared frame by frame.

There was no sound, no music, and everything was quiet.

What lies before our eyes is this vast and majestic scene, yet it is frighteningly quiet.

The Angelica Film Center is not quiet because it is an open-air screening. The roar of engines coming and going and the bustling noise of the subway entrance continue, but those trivial sounds only highlight the quietness here.

In the small space enclosed by high-rise buildings, they are witnessing a destruction.

No wonder Joel doesn't want Clementine to enter the villa and snoop into his shame.

Because Joel is always feeling remorseful and regretful, he is not as frank and sincere as Clementine, and he doesn't even dare to face his own feelings.

Standing in front of Clementine, he felt so insignificant.

Human beings are actually pitiful animals. Their anger, hatred, distortion and ugliness, violence and attacks on others often come from their fear of facing their true selves.

Fragile. Small. Humble. Ugly. Dirty. Lowly.

The more you dare not face yourself, the more you tend to project your darkness onto others, and then, in the name of justice, wield the knife against the weak, the people you love deeply, and the people who love you deeply.

Joel, dare not face himself.

That's why he pushed Clementine away, that's why he impulsively did things he would never try after Clementine's memory was erased, and that's why he hid his meanness so carefully in that villa.

Until everything is reduced to ashes.

My mouth is full of bitterness, but I can't cry out.

That grandeur, that magnificence, that helplessness and bitterness filled the entire venue.

Blair could hear her own heart breaking in the air.

She had a feeling that this was a tragedy, but the way the movie was presented was so nonsensical and cheerful that it gave her a brief illusion that it was a comedy. Then, if they weren't paying attention, the core of the tragedy would suddenly hit them hard in the heart when they were least prepared.

Out of breath.

When the world collapses, there is often no sound.

If even the memory of the villa disappears, does that mean everything has been wiped clean and nothing is left?

Everything disappeared into darkness in silence.

The camera switches to daybreak. Dr. Howard finishes all his work, packs up his tools and leaves Joel's apartment. He and Stan try to have a conversation, but no one knows what to say about what happened last night.

Finally gave up.

In the apartment, Joel wakes up——

He felt something strange but couldn't explain it. He looked at his pajamas with confusion on his face, as if he didn't know where these pajamas came from.

However, without giving it much thought, he got up anyway.

In an instant, a turbulent air current surged in the center of Angelica's movie.

Not only Blair, but Karen also reacted:

Loop!

This scene is exactly the beginning of the movie, forming a perfect connection between the beginning and the end of the movie. Although the amount of information is huge and my brain cannot sort out my thoughts for a while, all those unreasonable plots finally found a connection, and goose bumps suddenly appeared.

Especially when Joel arrived at the parking lot and saw the scratches on the grooves of the car door, he showed a confused expression on his face and finally chose to blame the neighbor next door for leaving a "thank you" note in the other's wiper, which made me smile.

Joel opened the car door and Stan closed it.

When Stan returned to the Oblivion Clinic, he saw Mary packing up and leaving, and Stan immediately chased after her. "...If I were you, I would come back." Stan was so panicked that he didn't know what he was talking about.

Mary, "Do you swear you know nothing?"

Stan, "I swear." Without a second's hesitation.

Mary, “So you didn’t erase your memory?”

Stan, "Of course not!"

Mary, "You never even suspected that we were dating?"

call.

Stan let out a long breath, his eyes slightly evasive, "Once, maybe."

But in the end, Stan looked into Mary's eyes and said, "I came back from work and you were in his car. I saw you two were talking. I waved to you and you smiled at me."

Mary looked a little confused. "How do I look?"

Stan's expression was a bit struggling. "You look happy. Happy because you're hiding a secret."

Mary: "And then?"

Stan, "I never saw you two together again. So, I don't know, I guess it's just my imagination."

Mary glanced at Stan with a complicated expression, but ultimately said nothing and continued walking with her briefcase.

At the train station, Joel left the platform without warning, inexplicably, and on impulse, and rushed madly towards the train heading to Montauk in the opposite direction, squeezing into the train at the last moment.

The plot, which seemed lifeless and nonsensical at the beginning of the movie, is staged again at this time, but it brings a completely different feeling. The audience's heart rises with the flying hem of Joel's coat and his running footsteps.

They had not forgotten Joel and Clementine's final farewell before the villa fell apart. Clementine left a sentence in Joel's mind:

“Meet me in Montauk.”

A seed, a thought, and also a hope.

Stan is saying goodbye to Mary, "I really like you, Mary, you know that?"

Mary looked at Stan with a sad and lost look on her face.

Stan didn't wait for Mary's response. He handed over the handbag that Mary left in Joel's apartment last night, then turned and left.

Mary put her things into the trunk of the car, and the camera was always focused on Mary's trunk, which made the audience look over there involuntarily.

It was… folders and tapes. Lots and lots of folders and tapes.

Wait, what folder or tape is that?

The camera turns to show Joel and Clementine ending their all-night date. Joel sends Clementine home, and Clementine says she is ready to go to Joel's house to sleep.

Clementine goes upstairs to get her toothbrush, and then Patrick knocks on Joel's car window.

At home, Clementine turned on the answering machine and heard Patrick confessing his love. He tried his best to save this budding love, but he didn't know that this love had never started.

When leaving, Clementine took the letter and returned to Joel's car, and the two set off again.

The whole audience is highly focused——

Because the movie starts with this plot, and the next second it is forced to switch to the scene where Joel bursts into tears after he breaks up with Clementine.

And now, people have understood it - at least some viewers have understood it, while some others are still confused because of the brain-burning puzzle. From the timeline, this is the third time Joel and Clementine have met, and that is the second time they meet after they broke up and deleted their memories.

Ahead, everything is unknown.

(End of this chapter)