"Eternal Sunshine.." Question

Cafe Society
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I saw this movie with **Gr8kat ** and **Master Control ** this Sunday and thought it was pretty good although I was distracted during a couple parts when I had to run to the bathroom due to the undercooked food the theatre served me.

Anyway… there as one scene that both **MC ** and I noticed early on and discussed after the show but neither one of us ever figured out if we had caught an oversight or if we just aren’t thinking it through hard enough.

In the scene where Joel has collected all of Clementine’s belongings for the brain wipe procedure, Mary is on the phone talking to one of her clients and you distinctly hear her telling one of the clients that you can’t have two or three procedures done in one night and, I think, that she would have to come in again for the other procedures.

How would you do that? Wouldn’t part of the procedure be erasing all memories of the clinic from your mind in the first place, effectively destroying the possibility that you will have repeat customers? So wouldn’t you want to do as many of them as you could beforehand?

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I saw the film a while back but I thought she was saying you can’t do that many proceedurs in a month. It was like the customer was doing it for really brief relationships and was sort of addicted to it.

I don’t know if they erase the company from your head. Just why you came.

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Your reasoning for the line makes sense but that still doesn’t explain why she would continue to have knowledge of the place… neither Joel nor Clementine knew about it at all at the end of the movie, so that gives the impression that everything is erased.

And thinking more logically, leaving in the memory that you went to a memory wiping clinic would leave you to believe you had a procedure done there and once you thought that, it would be only human nature to want to know what it is that you erased from your mind. I would think that erasing the clinic visit out of a client’s mind would be integral to the procedure.

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I think she was telling someone entirely new that they can’t do several procedures, i.e., to make her forget several people, in a single night.

I guess that if someone had something like that which requires multiple visits, then they’d make sure to erase memories of Lacuna, Inc last.

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The customer has to remember to pay the bill somehow. Or maybe it’s all cash up front, so it won’t show up in your checkbook or credit card statement?

“What’s this bill? I never went to a memory-eraser!”

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I just figured that payment was made before-hand, along with signing all necessary waivers, etc. Patients probably ask if they can have more than one person erased and Mary is informing them that they can’t do this in one night.

Clementine and Joel don’t remember and I doubt any patient remembers the company. That doesn’t really conflict with the above.

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I remember having the impression that it was a customer who kept coming back, but I’d need to see the exact quote…