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Eddie Morra is struggling in his life until he encounters a new drug that allows him to access 100% of his brain and gain vast knowledge. He succeeds in business but becomes addicted to the drugs, which slowly kill him. While the drugs increase his intelligence, they change his personality and he isn't the same person. The film raises questions about whether drugs could truly enhance the mind and whether the risks of misusing medications are worth it for knowledge. Overall, the author agrees people want to learn but disagrees with changing oneself or risking death through drug misuse just to become smarter.
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- 1. Poston 1 Melissa Poston ENG 101 Professor Bolton 18 February 2013 Limitless: Trouble with your mind In the film Limitless, Bradley Cooper plays a role as Eddie Morra, a man whose life has gotten out of hand. He struggles with writing his new idea of a novel, while in the meantime his girlfriend Lindy dumps him for being out of hand. Eddie ends up running into his ex-brother in- law, who is a drug dealer; he tells Eddie about a new drug they discovered that will let him explore his whole entire brain. When Morra began taking the drugs, he began miraculously gaining knowledge. His ex-brother in-law is murdered by a Russian, who is also after him for the drugs.He becomes well-known and starts working for a billionaire, Carl Van Loon. While succeeding in the business, Lindy falls in love with him again, but she didnt know he was on drugs. His ex-wife finds him and tells him that he needed to stop taking the drugs becauseitwas slowly killing him, when Eddie misses a pill, he became really ill. At the end of the movie, he starts making more pills but without the bad stuff in it. The film demonstrates how people want to expand their knowledge but also demonstrates how people misuse medication for wrong reasons. However, I do agree with wanting to increase knowledge, but I also disagree with changing who you are and killing yourself to do so. I totally agree with people wanting to become smarter. But can medicine actually increase your knowledge? The first scene shows how Eddie is lost in his novel and has no clue what to write. However, once he takes the pill, he will not have that problem anymore. According to the film, They say you can only access 20% of your brain, with this you can
- 2. Poston 2 access all of it. Even though no one yet has discovered this kind of pill or made this kind of pill, it could make humans lives easier. If everyone was able to access all of their brain, I think our country would be better off, speaking for how people would straighten out the mess we are in and getting us back in order, there would also be a downfall to that. Medication has been around for a while and has helped so many people for different reasons, like the physically challenged, the mentally challenged, the emotionally challenged and even for basic sickness. Every person has some kind of medication to keep them going for periods of time. We all are hoping to discover new ways to increase our knowledge, so that we can do more. I believe someone someday will figure out some way to do such a thing. Despite my agreement on becoming smarter, I have to disagree with taking medicine for no apparent reason. In the film, Eddie is addicted to this medication, but when he stops taking it, he gets really ill, also other people die and gets sick after they stop taking it, who has taken the pills. People every day die from taking medicine that was not prescribed to them. We rely on medicine to make us feel good and to take us away from the stress that we have, but in the meanwhile those drugs are killing us slowly without us even knowing. Camilla Haw and Keith Hawton states, In psychological autopsy studies, substance (drugs and alcohol) misuse or dependence has been reported in 19-63% of suicides (86). For example, I used to have very bad knee problems, and every day I would come home and take medicine until it started slowly going away, but the next day I would have this awful headache when I woke up. This goes to show that we over use medication for no good reasons. While disagreeing on the misuse on medication, I also disagree with changing who someone is to make them self-smarter. The film shows that when Lindy and Eddie starts dating again, Lindy can tell that he is not the same person he used to be. Also when the pills wore off,
- 3. Poston 3 he had no clue what he was doing and where he had been. A lot of people, who use drugs, dont have a straight mind of what theyre doing or what they have done. After taking drugs for long periods of time, it changes who that person really is. And even when a person stops taking medication and drugs they are not always going to be the same. Although in the film, we do see that medication can have some good outcomes but also have some bad outcomes. After all, to me, I think Limitless isnt worth watching because it makes no sense for people trying to kill their selves to get smarter over a period of time. Even though it gives viewers several things to think about, like would someone be willing to change themself or would someone be willing to take the chance to see how the medication works. While I disagree with changing and killing yourself, I agree with wanting to expand the human mind.
- 4. Poston 4 Works Cited Haw, Camillia; Hawton, Keith. Problem drug use, drug misuse and deliberate self-harm Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Vol.46. (2011): 85-93. Academic Search Premier Limitless. Dir. Neil Burger. Perf. Abbie Cornish, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro. A ROGUE. 2010. Film.