Film Review: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Cliques is a small group of people which are close friends that spend time together and have share same interests and similarities. This group led Joel and Clementine’s place of encounter. Later these people Joel who he seeks emotional support from his sudden end of relationship with Clementine and then told Joel about Clementine undergoing the procedure.

Defensive coping a technique for coping which gives immediate solution or relief but with risks.
The procedure to erase or delete certain memories that remind them of hurtful or their source of stress. The method or therapy used in the movies is not different as defensive coping as it depicts immediate relief it doesn’t erase any feelings that still
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To Joel it seems risky as it means breaking and entering yet it could’ve been more fun, wine and will give them warmth for the night. He then regrets that moment of leaving the house.

Approach-approach conflict a conflict that involve goals that are desirable. In the vacation home scene where Joel and Clementine’s first encounter. Clementine saw these as this gives her an adventurous and exciting feelings while they also take refuge from the freezing night.

Destructive Criticism a criticism with an intent to hurt, demean, and devalue them as a person.
In the scene of Joel’s memories when Clementine came home 3 o’clock in the morning. Driven by his beliefs and feelings of Clementine’s impulsiveness he doesn’t trust her which made them exchange words and Clementine left.

Electroencephalograph (EEG) monitors brain activity a technology that is attached on the scalp. Brain activity are active all the time even when an individual is asleep.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) a procedure as small electric currents that pass through the brain. That seeks to change brain chemistry that can reverse symptoms of certain mental

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