Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie that depicts a bad breakup and a memory erasing procedure that tries to remove the heartbreak, except that the two people involved still fall in love, inevitably. The two are shown as a happy couple at the beginning of the film. When the two are on their first date, it shows a great contrast between the two, and their strengths and weaknesses, Clementine wants to go out onto the ice covering a lake, but Joel is much less daring and adventurous so he doesn't want to follow her out their, but she encourages him and drives him to do so. So the two are shown as a happy couple, lying on the ice. However, the relationship quickly reaches an ugly end one night when Clementine comes home really late one night. ""It's 3 O'clock" "I kinda sorta wrecked your car" "you're either drunk, or just pathetic." "I was a little tipsy, don't call me pathetic!" "Well it is pathetic, and it's irresponsible, you could have killed somebody." The two whom once thought they were in love end up in a fight and separating. The ongoing separation leads to both of them undergoing an overnight procedure that involves erasing all of their memories of the loved one. Much of the movie's course is showing Joel's dreams about Clementine as he relives is memories of her as they are being erased.