# 2 Michael Romett - Limitless

Limitless
We spent all semester viewing movies and analyzing the religious side of them. I thought it was good to take a break and go see more of a modern movie that deals with our class. Being that most of the movies we saw during the beginning of the semester were either foreign or over 20 years old, I thought it was extremely interesting to see a movie that students today would go see for entertainment.
Eddie played by Bradley Cooper, is a man who is not happy with the way his life has turned out. He is depressed and cannot write a book which he is supposed to write. In turn finding out that his ex-wife’s brother has come across a drug that, instead of having the normal human only be able to access part of their mine, this drug lets them gain full control of their minds and the actions that come from this drug makes them able to be steps ahead of normal humans and their thought process. The drug is called NZT-48, and it changes Eddie’s life in a way that he believed to be far from explanation. He is able to write the book that he needed to in a matter of 2 days, along with other things. He bases his life around this drug and eventually is dependent on it. Once his supplier is found dead in his apartment, he finds a supply in his apartment and takes it, with the thought in the back of his head that someone is after him trying to keep him from taking the drug. Whenever he gets into trouble he simply takes one of these pills and it gets him out of trouble. Eventually he is going to run out of this drug and when that day comes he goes through withdrawals. He sends his girlfriend to get his secret stash and in order for her to get out of trouble she has to take one of the pills. She realizes the effects that it has and does not like the man that Eddie has become and does not want anything to do with it. Individuality is an important theme in this movie because what Eddie has become when he is on the drug is not who the real Eddie is. Toward the end of the movie, he bring forward the idea that he has composed a plan to mass produce the drug and eventually slowly make himself less dependent of the drug, or this is what he tells Robert De Niro. The movie at the end has an interesting turn because I cannot tell whether he is still on the drug or has found a way to produce more of it by paying off some chemists to figure out exactly what the drug I made of. I thought this was a very interesting movie and is one that is going to bring forward a lot of critics in the near future. However, there is the question of God created everyone for a reason and you are the way that he created you. This movie strays away from that, making the inference that Eddie is not who God created him to be but what he created himself to be.