 how happy is the blameless vessel's lot the world forgetting by the world for god eternal sunshine of a spotless mind each prayer accepted and each wish resigned charlie kaufman's eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is one of my favorite movies it's a thought-envoking film that pursues the idea or the question that everybody asks themselves at one point or another i wish my memories could be erased or i wish a particular memory could be erased but what does the title eternal sunshine of the spotless mind truly mean the line is from alexander popes poem eluiza to abelard a story of a love affair where forgetting and loss of memory can only comfort eluiza as she has fallen in love with abelard and her family found out how happy is the blameless vessel a blameless vessel is someone who is pure a woman who is pure and innocent is a woman who is happy the world forgetting by the world for god that innocence and purity is maintained by her forgetting about the world a world that has already forgotten about her eternal sunshine of a spotless mind those with an innocent mind a mind that is not clouded by memories regrets or a past can achieve eternal happiness each prayer accepted and each wish resigned eluiza is happy because her prayers are accepted and she has forgotten the events that have happened in relation to the movie these two ideas conflict each other while the poem tells us the blissful nature of forgetting the things that have hurt us the movie makes sure that we ask the question is ignorance truly bliss in the movie in order to delete memories from the brain using the lakuna system you have to remove both the good and the bad memories and while mary and the others who work at the lakuna often promote it as a good thing the film constantly turns it against them the film essentially explains to us that regardless of what memories are lost we will always tread the same path that we once did it's in our nature when her prayers were accepted mary had her memories erased and still she repeated the same action that she had her memory erased for joel and clementine heat meeting each other and then having their memories erased creating a vicious cycle the lakuna acts almost as a band-aid that you can simply erase a memory that you don't enjoy even though that memory can create opportunities for growth if we were all able to erase our memories would we ever change his people joel is able to even attempt to break the cycle because he understood why the relationship failed and he can now seek to improve the title of this movie eternal sunshine of a spotless mind depict several meanings the first a lie by stating that a spotless mind has eternal sunshine when it does not and that ignorance is bliss when the mind first has to be tainted in order to reach bliss the second being a contradictory truth or a promise that once all negativity has been purged of one's life it creates eternal sunshine of a spotless and a clean mind this movie has us take note that our memories construct our very essence in our very being but this movie also teaches us that the world never forgets