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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Do you know the Velveteen Rabbit?

It's my favorite book. Since I was a kid. It's about these toys. There's this part where the Skin Horse tells the Rabbit what it means to be real.

He says it takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept..

Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'

So the connection is despite the flawed relationship there was a moment with Clem so divine he was willing to relive everything.

I'm ready to write my film paper lol

all in the same succession and sequence. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!'

"Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you,

There are Nietzsche references

someone mentioned his writings on eternal recurrence

the script helps with the timeline.

"We'll start first with your most recent memories and go backwards" this is the first scene, when Clementine still has blue hair. When the audience thinks they are first meeting, they're meeting after he's had his memory erased.

Patrick was a creep, but also desperate for love. It was like he wasn't confidant enough to try to create intimacy himself and was taking short cuts.

contrasts to the authenticity & genuine intimacy of Clem & Joel's relationship, despite the flaws.