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To achieve the vestal virgin's happily spotless mind will take more than pharmacology. It may even need such old-fashioned techniques as talking through the problem. Some years ago I ran an experiment which showed that for mildly depressed people psychotherapy could achieve the same effects on the body's biochemistry as could taking a standard anti-depressant drug. The brain/mind is after all a profoundly social organ, and memories are more than mere molecules.
This is why in the film, human attraction triumphs over erased memories and the ex-lovers, meeting again, fall once more for each other, and start over - wiser only in their knowing that they may well fail again.
Hollywood obsession
Hollywood is obsessed with memory, or the loss of it. And although forgetfulness can take different forms, film-makers tend to fixate on just one: retrograde amnesia.
This is when you forget information you already had stored, such as who you are and why you're being scooped out of the Mediterranean by strange fishermen, like Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity. Or what you're doing posing as a famous psychiatrist about to take charge of the mental asylum: Gregory Peck in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.