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Believing We Can Be Eddie Morra: Is Mass Deception a Bad Thing?

Bradley Cooper’s character Eddie Morra in the film Limitless (2011) comes across a pill called NZT that essentially makes him the best version of himself. He is able to tap into everything he has ever...

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Culture Industry

“From The Culture Industry”, points out that culture is what makes up the individual instead of the individual finding their own way.  It is the culture that makes the individual react and they all...

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The Unstoppable Eddie Morra

In the film “Limitless”, I would like to discuss the first part of the film where everything started to go down hill for Eddie. Eddie Morra was a man who was working on writing a novel that he been...

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Limitless and The Human Psyche

In Limitless, the main character Eddie becomes a sort of super human. His mind becomes overwhelmingly intelligent and strategic after taking an illicit drug called NZT. This drug makes him meta; in...

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Enlightenment

I was a bit confused with the main point of the article. It seemed that a lot of information was given and I didn’t grasp enough of it. What I think the focus of the article or excerpt was, is that...

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Infinite Possibilities-Limitless & Dialect of the Enlightenment

In the film Limitless, we are confronted with the constant proposition of excelling or accepting a life of mediocrity.  We see the narrative of our lives through the perspective of the main character...

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Another Familiar Picture

Neil Burger’s 2011 film Limitless tells the story of a New York writer who is given a drug that enables him to access a large amount of his brain which ultimately leads to his success along with...

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Limiting your Limitless

     In the movie “Limitless” and the story “Dialectic Of Enlightenment” share similarities about the human psyche.  Both of the authors touch on what can control our brains and far it can go, it shows...

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Sex in Film

When actors portray sexuality in film, they are serving as surrogates for the viewer. Sexuality in film engenders a “libidinal effect” which allows the audience to replace reality with a dream...

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Reflecting on Limitless and How It Reflect Society

Limitless was a wonderful and intriguing movie to watch, I really enjoyed it. This movie was especially intriguing because in so many ways Bradley Cooper’s character, Eddie reminds  me much of myself:...

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Rachel Getting Married and The Image of Woman

 Rachel Getting Married is the story of a troubled young woman, Kym, who leaves rehab for a weekend to go home to her sister’s wedding, where two families of different backgrounds merge ceremoniously....

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“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”

Laura Mulvey uses the psychoanalysis theory to argue how individuals view films in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.  Mulvey states that because the individual is fascinated by what they have...

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Rach.getting married/Vis.Pleasure&Narrative Cinema

Laura Mulvey raised very interesting points in her paper addressing visual pleasure and narrative film. As a psychology major I enjoyed the first part of Mulvey’s paper discussing, in short, how...

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The Recovering Junkie As the Erotic Object?

Jonathan Demme’s 2008 film Rachel Getting Married follows The protagonist, Kim, who gets out of rehab around the time her sister Rachel is getting married, but when she gets home, the story is flipped...

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Rachel Getting Married & Visual Pleasure

First, I want to say that I did not enjoy this movie nearly as much as I did Limitless yet, it was not as bad as The Battle of Algiers. Now, I will begin my blog post. This movie was confusing at times...

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Rachel Getting Married-Visual Objectivity as a means of Pleasure

Jonathan Demme’s 2008 release of Rachel Getting Married, ironically is centered the release of a recovering drug addict Kym, and her encounters with her family members during her sister’s prenuptial...

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Rachel Getting Married and Visual Pleasure

When watching Rachel getting Married I had no interest in it at all. The movie didn’t give off a “what’s going to happen next” vibe. This movie gave a lot of emotion from sadness to depression making...

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Langston Hughes and Spike Lee

Langston Hughes’ piece and Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It are both about being proud of who you are as an individual.  What Langston Hughes is implying in his piece is that by the young poet saying “I...

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Don’t Apologize for Who you Are. Hughes and Lee

I found the inner struggle that Nola the character from Spike Lee’s film ‘She’s Gotta Have it’ to be very relatable. In society there are always pressures to act a certain way, to be the way you think...

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She’s Gotta Have It and The Art of Language

In She’s Gotta Have It, all of the characters, at some point in the film speak directly to the camera. In this fashion, they are speaking to the audience, telling their own point of view. For a moment,...

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