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An Integral perspective on "Limitless"
I'd love to open an integrally-informed dialogue about the movie "Limitless." I personally really enjoyed the movie, but I also found it fascinating from an integral perspective. The director, intentionally or not, incorporated at least three perspectives in the film that gave it a more integral dimension.
Beginning first from the "It" perspective of "I-We-It", it showed the tradtional film director's perspective of the exterior dimenstion of the events of the film: people walking, talking, interacting, things moving and changing. However, the director moves on to incorporate a "We" dimesion of the film in that we are listening to a (essentionally interior) monologue from the protagonist as he describes his thoughts, feelings and interpretations of what's happing (It.) However this interior monologue actually comes across as if he is talking directly to us, the audience, as if in a conversation. This dimension of being spoken directly to by the hero gives a dialogue quality to the film between us the viewer and the hero ("We.")
The final perspective given by the director is the use of special effects to give us the subjective sense of how the hero is actually experiencing the world. Is his normal subject view, the hero experiences the world as...normal. Kinda boring, flat, darker colors, basically the egoic-mind's experience of life. When, however, he ingests the mind altering drug, suddenly the world (that the director creates for us, the audience to experience) becomes vivid, full, permeated by light (similar to some meditative experiences.) Even information and thoughts in this new view of the world become objectified; as the hero contemplates stock numbers we actually see the numbers cascading in from of us as the thoughts become objectified. In this third perspective the director attempts to recreate for us the actually subjective interior experience of the hero (the "I" dimension.).
This is the first film I've seen (or perhaps, noticed) that intentionally included (or made object) all three of these elements simulatneously. I'd love to hear other perspectives about the film from anyone else in the integral community, as well as any other integral film recommendations....
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