Ultimately, Joel's journey shows that memories, both good and bad, are an essential part of who we are. He comes to accept the pain of their relationship and the loss of Clementine, but he's grateful for the time they had together.
Desperate to hold onto her, Joel begins a frantic, ingenious rebellion within his own subconscious. He literally tries to hide Clementine in places the technicians cannot find her: in his childhood memories, in his shameful, secret moments, deep within the forgotten corners of his mind. He drags her through a maze of his own psyche, trying to preserve the one person he now realizes he cannot bear to lose. The battle becomes a race against time, a poignant and surreal struggle of a mind fighting its own erasure to save a love it was trying to forget. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind legendado