Wesley Crusberg, (Limitless) Blog # 4

I do not know where to even begin. The movie Limitless I was not a fan of. It was a movie that we collectively watched as a class as our field trip. The movie to me represented drug addiction at its worst. The movie starred Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. In this movie Cooper plays a struggling writer who gets writing block and cannot finish his book. He runs into an old friend who gives him a pill named NXT. This pill allows an individual to access all 100% of the brain and in turn that person becomes limitless.
This is where the movie for me goes into the typical drug movie. NXT allows Eddie (Cooper) to use all of his brain. Eddie finishes the book but still wants more of this power. He becomes addicted and in turn wants to get more and more. Eddie tries to get off the drug himself but fails, the addiction is too much and now everyone that knew he had the drug now wants it too. The movie goes through its ups and downs just like any other drug movie. There is the happy time where nothing can go wrong and then there is the ODing and relapse part of the film. There was one part that the movie went to lengths. One of the men trying to get more NXT stalks Eddie and takes his last pill. But he takes the pill by shooting in up his vein like heroine. Eddie kills him in defense and then drinks the man’s blood to get his ‘fix’. This is where everyone in the movie gasps for air and the movie just went to weirs lengths.
The movie did have one aspect that I thought was interesting. There were parts in the film that I wasn’t quite sure who was on NXT and was not on it. The movie did share who was on it and who was not in a clever way. When one of the characters was on NXT the screen would lighten up. This made it easier to determine who was taking the drug. The movie eventually got to the point that everything was brighter and it made you think if the movie was a symbol for how drugs take over society to a certain degree.
All in all the entire movie to me was a flop. I did not enjoy it because it was a typical drug movie just with a little more flavor. I found it hard to watch because in my eyes the movie had potential just didn’t measure up.