志异 Draft by Drama box december 2013 (english) | Page 21

our lives. I lie in bed every
night travelling through and
forth time, without even any
need for a luggage.
But not everyone wants
to keep their memories. Some
might actually consider a
particular memory a burden.
In Peter Chan's Perhaps Love,
Ji Jin Hee (who played the
role of a ‘memory collector’)
has a monologue like this:

“Life is like a ?lm… I'm responsible
for keeping track of these deleted
footages; I make sure they are
intact. Because people do make
mistakes in editing all the time.
When they realise they made the
wrong cut, I'll deliver the footages
back to them.”
The characters in the film
try to edit their stories, and
they do not realise what they
discard is actually very
precious to others. How can
anyone claim to have the best
editing skill? Perhaps when we
are engrossed in the splicing
and editing of our memories,
life itself is looking at us,
with arms folded, head tilted.

Perhaps no one can
resist the temptation to visit
the clinic ‘Lacuna Inc’ in the
movie Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind. We are always
tempted by the possibility of
starting all over again. In
the movie though, we are shown
that even if we did have the
chance to start over, we might
not necessarily be happier.
The characters in the movie
are plagued by feelings of
loss and anxiety because of
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