What memory would you choose if you were in the position of the characters in the movie. I personally wouldn't choose. It should be interesting to hear your answers. Please share.
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I can't even think of anything suitable. I would want to have all my friends and family in one perfect memory, but I don't. My most vivid memories are of depressing things, so I don't know if I could choose.
sharemy first kiss with the girl of my dreams, and the time we spend together before it all when to hellWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Hard to say.....since each and all of my memories are fleeting and inconsequential to each other.....That is what makes the question so hard. You just can't choose one memory.
I was a kid still in primary school and for a fund-raiser our school made these tablecloth-like things which were covered with self portraits of everyone in the school including the teachers. About 200 people all in all and most of them were pretty goofy looking since they were drawn by young kids. I remember hanging out in my room with my mother looking it over the day that we got them. We were both laughing so hard that we couldn't breathe clutching each other in gales of laughter. This went on for like an hour or more. I loved the way my Mom could genuinely share my childish glee. This was just one occasion but I adored that feeling and I think it captures the relationship that I have with my mother perfectly. I think that if I had to keep the memorie of just one of the people I have loved and adored in my life, it would be of my Mother.
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Many of the film's characters chose a childhood (sometimes infant) memory, I have this thought that, and I'm sure many will counter with the argument of innocence and purity, pre-adult happiness is more shallow than it's adult counterpart. This may just be a bizarre thought, I don't really have anything to substantiate with of course, considering the abstract subject.
So, sorry no example here. I have experienced humble highlights of course but earth-moving moments of happiness haven't happened yet in the last couple of years (I'm 20 btw). I guess for most it'd be the first confirmation from one you love deeply, that he/she feels the same way. Never been that deeply in love though...(if you don't count unrequited love).
Anyone else finding it really depressing having to rack their brain for a memory that'd even come close to pure happiness?
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No. Stupid idea does not tap into my sentimentality!
shareyou may consider yourself fortunate to see that you have no examples. That may guide your path for many years to come. What I mean is, maybe you will now make certain to experience as many highlights as possible. That way, if you're every asked this same question at 40, you'll be more prepared to answer. All the best. I wish I had been as bright at 20.
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What a touchingly honest & open answer. I'll see if I can do it justice.
A few years ago I was on holiday with my girlfriend in the Highlands of Scotland. We drove to Ardnamurchan Point, on the far west coast. It was quite warm that day, but very windy and fresh. We'd had a good walk and we'd just been messing about like kids, racing each other up steep hills and clambering on rocks.
There's a gift shop near Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, and my girlfriend decided we should get each other a small present, but since it was such a small shop we'd have to take turns waiting outside while the other chose & bought something, so's not to ruin the surprise.
I remember, when it was my turn to wait outside in the wild weather, looking and the beautiful scenery and the stormy Atlantic while waiting for my girlfriend, I felt the luckiest man I the world. I'd not have changed a thing about that moment!
But that said, it's still not easy to choose. It took me a long time after seeing the film to decide on that one moment. I think that's one thing that makes the film great - it makes you consider these things instead of take them for granted. I'm a far happier soul for having thought this through.
you did it justice. It reminded me of a similar time. Now I know the day I would choose. I still have a little wooden psychedelic cat which my fiancé bought for me from one of the funky shops in Berkeley. We both had some business to take care of in this cool little town, but when we finally met up and I'll never forget both of us walking down the street talking on our cell phones not knowing that we were actually walking toward each other on the same street, and how thrilled I was to see him. I'd take that one forever. He was truly the man of my dreams.
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Thank you, that's nice of you to say!
(Postscript to my story: the girlfriend I mentioned is now my wife, I'm proud to say)
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That's amazing, rob_lavender. That's perfect. I wish I had a memory like that.
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Thanks for sharing, that was a great memory.
shareorgasm. one where I hit myself, or somebody else, in the face. (Funny that, and touching and sad . . . is it the influence of porn and the money shot, or the uncountable times of going off on the inside - with many, different, worthy people - makes it even harder . . . to differentiate one from the other? I couldn't even choose one time from experiences with just one girl, how would I choose from all of them?) Deep, profound, fundamental questions, not.
Memories, good or bad, are impossible to separate and hierarchicalise. This was not a good premise for a film, but not a bad film either.
Stupid idea.
I have never felt fulfilled or truly happy in my entire life. I honestly can't think of anything I want to relive once let alone for eternity. The movie is kind of disturbing though if you think about it, because you have the unhappiest people (those who can't choose) being forced into labor listening to these moments of great happiness day in and out...
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I was 21. My dog, Pandora, was just a few months old. Young, healthy and fresh to life. I worked at a motel and things were rough at home, so my boss let me and my dog sleep at the motel. He let my dog run around the little front-office workspace too.
I was happy working there and holding her or just letting her run around. I've not stopped missing her, since she died.
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I really don't have any powerful love stories despite a few relationships, but I would probably choose the first one that really made an impact, when chatting with a girl on the internet and I developed a crush on her. The first time for me and still the best (it wasn't the first time I fell in love but the most prominent in hindsight)
That or possibly sometime during childhood, the best time with my old buddies (or with my family)