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movie review - Limitless

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.04.01

This is a movie in which an experimental drug sets a very average fellow free to do great things. He's soon in conflict with others who have done the same thing and are already taking advantage of their new advantages over the rest of humanity. I didn't like the way that things just kept working out for the main character; aside from a few scrapes the man's ascendancy on any kind of measure (be it success, power, wealth, sexual access to women, etc) followed the trajectory of the title.

Not recommended. Though I know people who insist that others watch it as a way of .. telling us of our potential if it weren't for .. the man? I don't know.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering