Sarah Clementson- Blog 4- Limitless

A drug that allowed the user to have full access to the brain meant the possibilities were limitless...Or are they really? I feel as though the movie was full of holes in its plot and its over-all theme condoned drug use, but it did come across a few interesting themes: Control, Power, and the ability of the human mind.
Touching on control- the only person who tried the drug in the movie and did not re-use it was Eddie's girlfriend, Lindy. Her character in the film is intriguing because she does not fit the mold and is almost similar to the type of character portrayed in the film Groundhog Day from the beginning of the semester. Although the drug appeared to be the sacred, something that broke out of the mundane or profane existence, the plot did not do a good job of portraying it, but I feel as though Lindy might have won out. In the end, Eddie did not want to lose her and he even gave up the drug. The drug was a tool and a pivotal component but in the end, he just wanted to save his girlfriend, apologize and get back to her. The drug was one that controlled Eddie through addiction, terrible migraines due to withdrawal symptoms. The drug controlled his life because he had become addicted and utterly dependent on it with just one pill it seemed. The only issue I have with that is he seemed to look normal, recover, and even look healthier after weaning himself off the drug instead of haggard, decrepit and sickly like everyone else.
It was obvious how much power one was able to achieve when using their mind to its fullest potential when he amassed huge amounts of money through the stock market in just a few days and writing a book in hours. Yet, the human mind was still limited by being inside one being. He was able to guess things that would happen based on conversation or reading up on things but he was not omnipotent or omniscient. Eddie still had human failings- leaving his coat with the lawyer and not noticing that all of his pills were gone from the hidden pocket.
This thought ties to the limitations of the human mind. Instead of portraying a movie of someone with limitless possibilities and opportunities, I saw someone struggling to become sovereign over his own life by gaining control. But the frailty of the human body was evident in the withdrawal symptoms or the fatality rate of others who had used it. It almost showed that having that much access to knowledge was so unnatural that it cannot be contained in a human mind. It makes me think of the verses Psalm 139:17-18 "How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand". We see that his thoughts are so overwhelming that Eddie starts blacking out and missing parts of his life. I think this movie shows that only God is able to have limitless possibilities and any attempt humans have will fall short because we were not made to be God, only in His image.