Limitless trailer

Limitless movie poster

Limitless is a film about a pill. Okay not a pill, but about a man who takes this pill. After a chance meeting with an old friend, struggling writer Eddie Morra is given a pill that allows him 100% access to his brain, unlike normal people who can only access 20%. With his new-founded heightened sense of inteligency, he sets out to turn his life around. However, the pill soon begins to make him forget parts of his life, and he begins skipping time in his head, with no reccollection of how longs its been. Can Eddie stop the time skips and sort out the problems in his head before his boss Carl figures out whats going on? Honestly, I can't remember. Probably though, main characters don't tend to die too often. Anyway, on with the analysis.

there are quite a few feminist and marxist views throughout the trailer, meaning in my opinion this would be a good trailer to analyse. For starters, Eddie's character is a nobody. He is poor, out of luck, and has higher-up people staring down on him (e.g. the publisher, who he clearly had previous contact with as he states he'd like to "renegotiate his contract"), and is generally a pretty pathetic person really. However, this ll changes, and using the pill he soon rises above many of the previous people above him, and becomes equal to business man Carl (Robert De Niro), perhaps even better. This has positive and negative views on marxism. Whilst it is great that a nobody has risen to a somebody, he had to cheat to do it. This could impy that the lower class could never legitametly get higher up in the social hierarchy without having to cheat their way there.

Also in the trailer, there is a clear power divide between the men and women. For example, the men in this trailer are all powerful people, who either have a lot of money or just have authoirty, or in some cases both. However, the women are normally seen to just be there for sexual means, nothing more. This is likely supposed to show that there are no important female characters in this film, and that they are only used on certain occasions. This goes somewhat against normal feminist views, as the women are normally represented as needing the men to help, but in this there are no important enough women who need men.

Well, thats it for this post folks. Next i'll be analysing the Inception trailer so stay tuned! Sweet dream inside a dream inside a dream.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE_hhk1Gzc