Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I think this movie makes a strong connection between the movie world and the real world. An interesting conversation we had at the beginning of the movie was if anyone would want to have their memory erased, or at least a portion. There were a lot of mixed reviews though I had thought that first everyone would have been anti-memory loss but as people started to speak I started to see how maybe having portions of your memory erased wouldn't be that bad. For some their past is riddled with bad experiences and sometimes less than flattering moments, so to have those erased may actually solve some of the present problems they are facing now. But in all fairness to erase one's past is also erasing what makes them who they are. And for that reason alone i don't believe that memory erasing should be allowed. Also when would it stop, and where would just "mood swings" become "memory mashing" I don't think people should be able to erase frivolous information or events. An example of frivolous would be trying to erase that embarrassing Christmas party or that unfortunate hockey game. To erase these moments would be erasing our learning experiences, no matter how humbling they may be. Over all memories play a large role in how we function and make up our memory bank of mistakes and stumbles so that we can be more prepared for the future. To erase that would be to erase ourselves.