Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - a must see!

Although, I have not seen this movie yet, reading the synopsis on wiki enticed me to search every video store and grab a copy of this film. It was mentioned by my good friend, Glenn,  when we had our YM chats yesterday. We were talking about our being in the so called "DRAMA" Club. And how we wish to just have something like the technology on the said movie to erase a certain part of our memory so that we could not REMEMBER the sorrowful things we're in right now. Morbid isn't it?

I have seen one movie that is kind of like this - Paycheck (Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman) which is about a reverse software engineer who accepted an ambitious project to create a system that can see the future of one man. But the catch is, his memory from the time he created and finished the system has to be erased so that there is no traced whatsoever (maybe so that the company cannot be pointed out if something bad might turn out on the project). The thing is, he had a love interest in the movie and that made him realized that a big part of life was taken away. He totally have forgotten about that loved one yet he made a way to made him trace what he'd done by sending himself random items that has a connection in his three-year-memory-lapse.

Have this ever crossed your mind? That if only you could erase part of your memory so that you could forget about everything you don't want to remember. YET sometimes you still struggle to keep it because you're holding on to something you don't want to just leave behind. People's mind are really complex. We cannot be contented with what we have. We always want an easy way out of everything.