10 Movies That Forced You To Answer Impossible Questions

9. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Remember, Or Forget?

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Presented with the choice of completely forgetting everything to do with an ex might sound like the perfect solution in a pinch. Why go through the difficulty of moving on through painful memories when you can hit a reset button and get on with your life instantaneously? It saves throwing their PlayStation onto the M6 or taking a hammer to their make up collection after all.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind poses this exact scenario. Just without the smashy bit.

When an ex-couple who've had their memories wiped are magnetically drawn back together, it brings up the other side to the enormity of their decision - how can they ever learn or grow without having the relationship to look back on? And will another chance at being together result in wasting time on the same issues?

Its a personal, impossible scenario that surely splits audiences down the middle: as we never quite know which choice would be best for the couple on screen, nevermind ourselves.

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