evaluation essay on Limitless the movie

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." (Forrest Gump)

Trainspotting presents an ostensible image of fractured society. The 1996 film opens, famously, with a series of postulated choices—variables, essentially, in the delineation of identity and opposition. Significant here is the tone in which these options are delivered—it might be considered the rhetorical voice of society, a playful exposition of the pressure placed on individuals to make the "correct" choices, to conform to expectation.

The movie Enough is a suspenseful and heart-wrenching movie about a young woman named Slim, her daughter Gracie, and her abusive husband Mitch. At the beginning of the movie, Slim is working as a waitress in a diner and meets Mitch after he intervened a conversation between Slim and another man. At first, Mitch is viewed as a hero because he stood up for Slim when she was being hit on by a man who made a bet with his friends. Slim soon fell in love with Mitch who seemed like an overall great guy; he was handsome, charming, and very wealthy. Prior to the wedding they both appeared happy and he did not show any warning signs of domestic abuse. Soon after the wedding, Slim learned the awful truth about her

In the movie A Better Life, the Main Character Carlos Galindo is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who started working as a day labor worker when he first arrived in the country, however he has had steady work from Blasco Martinez who owns a gardening business which he tries to convince Carlos to buy from him as he says he is moving. The idea of being self employed is very appealing to Carlos but he knows he can never afford to do so and the risk of getting caught and deported is very high. Carlos has a son Luis who is reluctant to go to school on a daily basis and gets into trouble as he is influenced by his friends who are part of the

Talbot seems to be speaking to a wide audience: people who use neuroenhancing drugs, people who don’t, and people who may be thinking that they want to try them. Throughout her essay she seems to be for the use of these types of substances because she only uses anecdotes that show good experiences, and the bad experiences were solved with a quick easy adjustment in the dosage and time it was taken, or solved by sleeping it away, but still getting the work done on time. She uses the stories given to

Since her readers may have been people who do use neuroenhancing drugs, to people who never have had the opportunity to become offended. With her approach she prevented the article from becoming offensive to either side as well as continuing to be unbiased. This was very helpful to her readers when attempting to convey her

In my opinion no matter how much eddie tries to stay away from trouble it always ends up finding him. He gets all these opportunities and something bad happens every single time it seems like. I do not think eddie is the issue either it is all of what he is surrounded by that keeps messing him up and getting him off track, I think that he should continue working the jobs he has and move away from there to see how successful he can become then. Because if his own family is wanting

Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski were a couple in love. Everything changed when Clementine woke up one day and just decided to have Joel erased from her memory. He was “boring” and she wasn’t happy and wanted to move on. Joel then decided he wanted to also remove Clementine from his memory. This was all possible due to Lacuna Inc. who asked those wishing to remove a particular person from their memories to remove anything from their homes that could possibly be associated with that person. They sit the patient down, map out where memories are located that are associated with each object. Then, the company sends a couple of their scientists/psychologists to the home at night after they’ve fallen asleep. They then track down any remaining memories as they appear while asleep

The movie, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is based on a character Andy Dufresne. Andy is a young and successful banker who is sent to Shawshank Prison for murdering his wife and her secret lover. His life is changed drastically upon being convicted and being sent to prison. He is sent to prison to serve a life term. Over the 20-years in prison, Andy retains optimism and eventually earns the respect of his fellow inmates. He becomes friends with Red, and they both comfort and empathize with each other while in prison. The story has a strong message of hope, spirit, determination, courage, and desire.

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

When he began to take the drug he feel relief and did not to leave it have a powerful effect on him and he want it to last.

Most of the movie is taken in Joel’s mind or his memory removal process. Starting from his nearest memory that they broke up till his last remaining memory of Clementine that they first met at a beach. I think the most possible reason the movie is called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind is referring to the deepest memory (or say, soul) survived and reserved in their both minds that brought them back to the beach and met each other again. This title quotes entirely from Alexander Pope’s poem which know as describing a very contradictory mood from the unattainable love. So does it, the movie shows Joel wants to remove all memory of Clementine while he still loves her, but then during the process he changes mind and want to try his best to keep these memory which is the “spotless mind”. In my mind, the soul theory is the personal identity that the movie most engage. According to the soul theory, to have a same identical, it’s not necessary to have a same memory, but it’s necessary and sufficient to have the same soul. In the movie, though Joel erased his memory, he still has his soul which makes him fall in love with Clementine again, even in theory he can never love her then. On the other hand, this movie seems to intensely against Loke’s memory theory that sharing a memory of an experience is necessary and sufficient to be a same person. And I think the movie also presents its own personal identity that for one person to be identical to the other person, they should have

Continued research is needed in the use of these types of drugs in the normal person. It cannot be left up to the pharmaceutical companies to make this decision, as the financial windfall that will occur when these drugs are made available will be considerable. The FDA must step in and help determine whether the benefits outweigh the risks associated with this type of drug intervention for brain boosting/enhancement.

Eddie runs into Vernon, his ex-brother in law, in the streets who introduces him to the drug NZT. Eddie gets a little hesitant, but being a mess that he is and having nothing to lose, goes on and tries the drug.

The films Lucy and Limitless both explore the pseudoscientific idea of humans accessing more than the supposed 10 to 20 percent of their brains capacity. Directed by Luc Besson, Lucy is film that explores what accessing more than 10 percent of the brain would look like. The film follows the main protagonist ‘Lucy’, who, as the result of a series of unfortunate events, ingests an experimental drug and begins to develop supernatural abilities as her brain grows and in capacity and power. Similarly, the film Limitless, directed Neil Burger, is a film in which the main protagonist Edward Morra (Eddie, as referred to in the film) takes an experimental drug and begins to develop the ability to access 100 percent of his brain, allowing him to