“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
-Alexander Pope
Although I've seen this movie before, it always pops into mind so I thought I'd start my summer movie watching with it. So the premise of the movie is that Clementine (Kate Winslet) decides to erase all her memories of Joel (Jim Carey) from her mind after becoming unhappy in their relationship. After Joel finds this out, he opts for the procedure too. Some other characters stories are interwoven but the movie essentially follows the history of the two and their first meeting after the procedures.
The movie definitely provokes a few questions. First, would people actually do this? As bad as some memories or histories are, would someone erase all the good memories because of the bad? Second, can people change? Joel talks about wishing he could go back and change his mistakes. Now given a second chance, will he change? Can people fundamentally change or will he (and everyone else) make the same mistakes again?
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