Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2003) portrays a surgical solution to the problem of memory.  Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966) is about a surgical solution to the problem of aging and identity.  Both depict a Frankenstein narrative, wherein human intervention in natural processes backfire and the discontented patient is left with even greater maladies of regret and terror.  But I wonder what these two films, back to back, say about the role of medicalization and scientific fixes in the 1960s and today.   I’m specifically interested in the representation of mind in Gondry’s film, and the representation of body in Frankenheimer’s.  In each case, one is separated from the other.  And in each case, serious consequences result.  What can be made of the differing views of science between these two periods and specifically the ability of human beings to interact and change the work of machines?