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* After Mary sends the Lacuna clients their memories back, there will be a lot of angry clients wanting refunds. Will this result in Lacuna going out of business?

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* After Mary sends the Lacuna clients their memories back, there will be a lot of angry clients wanting refunds. Will this result in Lacuna going out of business?business?
** According to the original planned ending, no, because Clementine would go back there much older to find out that she and Joel have been doing the same thing to each other over the years. But that ending also has Mary still working there.
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** If he were a level-headed sort of person then he probably wouldn't resort to using the mementos to seduce her in the first place. But maybe since he knows about the relationship and the way it ended, he might be cherry-picking certain things to see if he can deviate where Joel went wrong.

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** If he were a level-headed sort of person then he probably wouldn't resort to using the mementos to seduce her in the first place. But maybe since he knows about the relationship and the way it ended, he might be cherry-picking certain things to see if he can deviate where Joel went wrong.wrong.
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* After Mary sends the Lacuna clients their memories back, there will be a lot of angry clients wanting refunds. Will this result in Lacuna going out of business?
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* After Joel signs up for the procedure, he collects various personal effects and mementos from his relationship with Clementine and gives them to Lacuna. Patrick then uses these mementos to seduce Clementine. While this is creepy and emotionally manipulative, it makes pragmatic sense from Patrick's perspective: these mementos have a powerful subconscious resonance for Clementine, and using them allows him to give her the impression that he understands her far more deeply than he really does. However, Patrick also re-enacts scenes from Joel and Clementine's relationship, and recites things Joel said to her verbatim. This ''doesn't'' make pragmatic sense, as one of the only things Patrick knows about Joel and Clementine's relationship is that it ended so acrimoniously that ''both of them'' wanted to immediately forget it had ever happened. By following the same script as Joel, he's effectively setting up his relationship with Clementine for failure and hastening its demise.

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* After Joel signs up for the procedure, he collects various personal effects and mementos from his relationship with Clementine and gives them to Lacuna. Patrick then uses these mementos to seduce Clementine. While this is creepy and emotionally manipulative, it makes pragmatic sense from Patrick's perspective: these mementos have a powerful subconscious resonance for Clementine, and using them allows him to give her the impression that he understands her far more deeply than he really does. However, Patrick also re-enacts scenes from Joel and Clementine's relationship, and recites things Joel said to her verbatim. This ''doesn't'' make pragmatic sense, as one of the only things Patrick knows about Joel and Clementine's relationship is that it ended so acrimoniously that ''both of them'' wanted to immediately forget it had ever happened. By following the same script as Joel, he's effectively setting up his relationship with Clementine for failure and hastening its demise.demise.
** If he were a level-headed sort of person then he probably wouldn't resort to using the mementos to seduce her in the first place. But maybe since he knows about the relationship and the way it ended, he might be cherry-picking certain things to see if he can deviate where Joel went wrong.

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