Limitless, based on the 2001 Alan Glynn novel, The Dark Fields. Following the unplanned meeting of a former friend, struggling writer Eddie Morra is offered a nootropic pill (a memory enhancing drug), which later becomes known as NZT-48. Claims suggest this pill has the ability to give its user the ability to access 100% of their brain rather than the normal 20%. Nonetheless this is a movie and nothing ever goes right, the pill has its side effects as Eddie begins forgetting things, and time begins to skip in his head.
There are many feminist/marxist views and theories to consider in the trailer alone. Firstly, to analyse an obious Marxist theory, Eddie starts the trailer as a nobody, he has no money, he is sruggling with work and all others look down at him. He his pretty much what some typical people might call a patheric excuse for a man, he has no power over anything at all. Eddie takes a risk to help pick his life up by take the pill as offered by a friendly counterpart (drug dealer). One opposition to the Marxist theory here is that Eddie is clearly going to overcome his betters rather than equal them.
A typical view also of the struggle from lower class to higher class for Eddie is that he had to cheat to become the best rather than earn it, similar to views shown in films so as 'This is England' where violent gangs use violence to overcome the superiority (government and higher classes).
Another point in the trailer, there is a clear power divide between men and women, for example, the men in this trailer are all very powerful, excluding the original state of the male protagonist, Eddie, besides this the male antagonists/protagonists tend have a lot of money and authority such as the character of Carl (De Niro). However the women are normally objectified throughout the film as sex toys, and typically have no other use in the main plot, in one scene of the film Eddie is taken back to a hotel room by a tall Swedish blonde (How Stereotypical!). This is likely to suppose that there are no authoritive female figures appearing in this film and that they are only really 'USED' in certain occasions. This does though go against some female stereotypes as there is no 'Damsel in distress', though it does adhere to the stereotypes of women being objectified for sexual purposes whilst male characters remain in authority throughout.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE_hhk1Gzc <<The Trailer


Some good comments about representation here Daniel. Try to refer to the key concepts when conducting your analysis. A reminder that these are : editing, sound, camera technique/angles and mise-en-scene.
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