Movies have become a sort of escape from reality. A place where there is good and evil. A place where we know what choices to make. A place where each action has a consequence. There is a comfort in clear cut answers, just as there is a comfort in eternal happiness. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind doesn't give you what you might expect. But it doesn't do the opposite either. Raising an interesting topic, just unfortunately doing it in Hollywood style. A quote from the movie: “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.”