I just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind since it came highly recommended by rottentomatoes.com and was listed under many "top romantic comedies" list. Something about the plot really bothered me though. Why would you want to erase your memory of someone especially someone you once cared about? To that I'd either say "Come on, man. Life goes on." but more likely that for every person you hit it off with and subsequently mess up with, it becomes something that you learn about yourself. And if you met someone and never learned a thing about yourself from them, then truth is you probably never cared about them in the first place. To erase someone from your mind...to try and forget someone...that's not only retrogression, it's kind of cowardly isn't it?