Aaron Hackett Video Blog 3

Limitless is a film that shows the potential that everyone has. It seems for the most part to be a simple display of cool “what if” situations. There seems to be a greater theme throughout the movie to me, though. To me it seems to point out the general stigma of “ignorance is bliss”, “the devil is in the details”, and that there are some things that we simply shouldn’t be able to do. This arises by the negative feelings from the protagonist’s girlfriend about the drug that the protagonist takes. The inherent badness of knowing everything is shown when she takes the drug and uses a little girl to cut her pursuers face. Although taking the drug saved her life, it is the drug that got her in this situation in the first place. Further, using the little girl was something she never would have done in her normal state of mind and this is seen as a terrible thing to do because she is using something pure and innocent to do something that is neither pure nor innocent.