Limitless Movie Essay

The film, “the Power of One,” followed the life of a boy named P.K. from a small child to a handsome young man. It showed all the hardship and tragedy he had to endure throughout his life. Although the movie could have focused more on the apartheid, it instead portrayed the vulgarity of those times through the eyes of an English boy. As time went on, P.K. slowly began to realize the full severity of the apartheid. It was difficult for a child to comprehend how horribly people could treat one another for no apparent reason.

The movie thirteen touched many important factors of adolescent’s development. Some of the ones I want to concentrate in this paper are: family system, developmental tasks, and peer pressure.

Eddie was born in Washington D.C, the son of two immigrants, making him a second generation immigrant. This effects his self-identity because he is different. He grew up in a different culture than most kids. This came apparent to him early on. Eddie’s food at lunch was different than the “average” lunch. He had food that was traditional to his culture, but it did not smell good. The other kids made fun of Eddie, “It was embarrassing, so I asked Mom to start packing me some white people food.” He was aware that he came from a different background than most kids, and that is was because of his parents being first generation immigrants, making him second.

     Upon hearing this Eddie feels awful and asks why the blue man died instead of Eddie. The blue man assures him that it was okay and that everything happens for a reason. “There are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind” (Albom, 48). This was the first lesson for Eddie. That everything happens for a reason and that no life is a waste. “No life is a waste, the only time we waste is the time we spend thinking that we are alone.” (50)

Into the Wild is a documentary film by Sean Penn that follows the life of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a vagabond who tramped across the United States for two years before his journey led him to Alaska, where he lived in the wilderness, sheltered by an abandoned transportation bus, preceding his death. McCandless grew up with all the privileges of being raised in the suburbs by a middle class family, he later went on to graduate from Emory University in Georgia, and seemed to have his whole life stretched out in front of him. However, he did the exact opposite of what was expected, severed all ties with his family, and adopted a life of chosen homelessness, where his travels led him on wild adventures across the country. Many speculate that McCandless was pushed to do this in order to spite his overbearing and abusive parents who verbally and physically assaulted each other in front of their children, demanding they pick a side. Some say it was McCandless’s desire to free himself from all material constraints and the burden of societal pressures. Taking a psychological approach, McCandless

These include the understanding/ achieving a goal of his sexual identity and of successfully dealing with the deaths of many of his friends to AIDS. Other elements within the film include video of the Civil Rights Movement and clips of Eddie Murphy performing an extremely afraid of homosexuality stand-up something commonly

Knowing he what he just came across he ends up taking the rest of the drugs back home where he uses the drug to do more experiments. During one these experiments he goes as far back to where he thinks its the start of creation. Not knowing much about what this drug could do, one of the experiment starts genetic regression on Eddie, not being able to speak and signs of mental change leads to having further examination. X-ray shows that Eddie has displayed characteristics as a Simian. Not even being on the drug Eddie goes through different states where he starts to hallucinate which starts to effect him physically and mentally. Wanting to continue his experiment not knowing the dangers again, leaves Eddie into a whole other creature. Eddie goes as far as changing into a man like ape who’s cover with fur that could be the signs of the first start of men. Acting like a dangerous primitive creature, he goes as almost killing a guy and eating a sheep. After changing back into his self, Emily and Arthur starts to worry and realizes how serious it can affect Eddie’s life. Not stoping there Eddie is able to get them to do another

Throughout the novel, Eddie also can be exemplified as a sympathetic character. sympathetic characters are when readers feel sympathy for throughout a story. The reader can feel empathy for Eddie, when the author describes the pain of Eddie’s gunshot wound. The pain was described to be unbearable and the description of the event of the gunshot pains a morbid picture in the reader’s mind. During Eddie’s time as a soldier in World War II, any reader can feel an astonishing amount of sympathy for Eddie. During, Eddie’s time as a soldier, he experienced, “A piercing pain ripped through Eddie's leg. He screamed a long, hard curse then crumbled to the ground. Blood was spewing below his knee. Plane engines roared. The skies lit in bluish flashes. He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die,” (Albom 84). The reader can comprehend Eddies suffering and pain. Eddie was on the ground, in a war zone hurt and slowly dying. Readers can feel a lot of sympathy for when Eddie wanted to let go of the world and die. Before Eddie’s death, he ran under a falling amusement park ride to save a little girl, Eddie

“Into the Great Wide open,” tells about the ups and downs of a young rockstar. It all started when Eddie finished high school and moved to Hollywood. He got a tattoo and met a girl who had a tattoo too. They both bought a place they could both afford and he also got a job working at the door at the nightclub. She taught Eddie how to play guitar. The papers said he wrote his songs from the heart

The little girl raised her arms. Eddie lunged. His bad leg buckled. He half flew, half stumbled toward her, landing on the metal platform, which ripped through his shirt and split open his skin, just beneath the patch that read, Eddie and Maintenance.” From this quote, it is evident that Eddie proves to be a brave character who, because of this act of bravery, saves a child’s life.

Was the sky ever the limit? Eddie felt exactly that way in “Into the Great Wide Open”. Eddie moved to Hollywood to make his dream come true right after high school. In “Into the Great Wide Open” the realistic story of a rock star that falls. Eddie moves to Hollywood, he makes his dream come true, and then ht goes down hill with his career.

This novel perfectly illustrates the interconnectedness of life shown through Eddie’s life. First, as a child, Eddie accidentally caused The Blue Man’s death and even attended his funeral. The Blue Man also worked at the same amusement park as Eddie’s father. This example shows that The Blue Man and Eddie’s lives were connected without either of them knowing. Second, Eddie was responsible for Tala’s death during the war that took place

In Michael Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the connections between people and memories become the focal point of a very unique romance. Through the use of new technology, the possibility of erasing memories makes painful relationships disappear like they never happened. The tale of Joel and Clementine allows the audience to rethink and question the process they undergo as beneficial or destructive. Though the process might be helpful in eliminating the pain caused from another person, four key scenes show how the lessons learned through relationship experiences are important.

Millar originally a one act play, but eventually did add a act two and cleverly did so to foreshadow Eddie's end. At the end of act one Marcus displays his power over Eddie foreshadowing Marcus's part in Eddie death. Millar also uses props to portray fate and inevitability. The most obvious for the audience was Eddie taking out a watch and looking at the time, the idea that time is running out (in relation of Eddie's life), Millar made Eddie do this after telling Vinny's story, time is running out to when Eddie would have the same

At the beginning,, the author introduced Eddie as a lonesome hero on his 83rd birthday as the maintenance man at an amusement park called Ruby Pier and that he tests the amusement rides to ensure the safety of the visitors especially the children. At 83, he is the master of his domain (Ruby Pier) and hardened against the injustices of the world. Eddie died from a falling roller coaster cart in trying to save a little girl and his journeys to Heaven where the rest of the story takes place. In the moment before his death, Eddie did not realize the value of his life. This is why he is so eager to find out whether or not the young girl he tried to save at the park survived. A young boy, Nicky visited the pier a few months back and