Another Random Movie Review

This was case in point of that stuff I talk about all the time, "randomly" being led to a book or movie, or to create a piece of writing. The Force at work.

I rarely ever pay to see a special engagement, and hardly go to the movies at all, but, after what will probably be my last day of work for a little bit, wandered over to Cyber Dogs for a dinner (I had the Ipanema----awesome Brasilian flavour!) and when that was done, found myself absently wandering into the Regal. I asked the girl at the desk what kind of Cerebral movies like "Inception" (last movie I saw in a theater, and it was that theater,) were playing, and she said "Limitless." So, without concern about the ticket price, usually a factor, I decided to check it out.

There is a reason for my seeing that film. Guarantee it. This is how the force works.

Overall, it was way cool. What I didn't like, was that there was no deviation from the typical Hollywood misogyny, in this case, that the main man killed a girl during a night he completely forgot, using his miracle drug. This prompted him to reconsider the drugs miraculous properties, but it still doesn't excuse him getting away with murder through a famous, high-powered lawyer. Furthermore, because he is so dynamic after using this drug, everybody seems to support him for the senate. But is that kind of behavior befitting a senator? Ted Kennedy got away with it, but that was after he was voted in. Just a little gross to consider.


Other than that, I really do enjoy when human beings get out of impossible challenges, awaken, etc...., and this fits into the respected genre of psychiatric comedy/ cerebral texture films nicely. Although, as a side note, I believe one could get the same effect as using all of one's brain capacity, simply by disengaging from the brain. "Thinking is not required," as my teacher says. You would be 100% plugged into the Tao/ The Force at that point, which is why my method of finding the film was coincidence.

It was thought provoking, and the message was that personal achievement is awaiting us all. Further, upon getting out of that theater, having seen any film, but most of all a cerebral one, I find myself being present. A state which is otherwise uncommon for me. It is automatically invoked by the place, and the rains which are inevitably falling when I'm downtown. The movie is not the only component of this; one could acheive the same feeling walking through downtown Seattle, looking up at the buildings, taking it all in, particularly during rain. However, the movie helps blend fiction (i.e the unlikely, the future, the unknown,) with reality. (ie the now.)

The next day I would experience Salvia, so it was exciting to look forward to this magickal herb in the context of the movie.

So, awakening folk, I suggest you run, don't walk, to see this movie, and do so in a similar setting if you can. We may not be able to respect everything the protagonist does, but we can certainly learn from it. "Men Who Stare at Goats," is another realistic example of what the mind is capable of.

If you'll pardon me, I have to develop my Jedi mind, and use it to accomplish something great.