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Eternity has been one of the most ambitious dreams of human beings for
thousands of years, maybe since those very first moments when we started to
comprehend what was happening around us, when our brain just reached something
like 5% of its potential, Our actual level it is about 10% according with some
studies, just 10% of our billions of neurons and their connexions are what make
us what we are today, “ an intelligent
expression of life”. So the big question is, what would happen if we could use
50% or even 100% of our potential? It is
a big question, but some Hollywood movie makers are trying to solve that by
showing us how it would be to be a super human with supper powers thanks to the
science fiction and one of these movies has just been released.
Lucy, played by Scarlet Johansson, is a woman who reaches 100% of
her brain potential after absorbing by accident a new recreational drug with
unexpected consequences. However there are few believable scenes throughout the
whole movie and lots of unnecessary elements. Lets start with the beginning,
the movie very first moments are set in Taipei and we know that they speak Chinese
or some Asian language (I am sure that any stereotypical blonde girl like Lucy
would know it) why Lucy spoke in Spanish when she found herself desperate about
her ridiculous situation with a briefcase handcuffed to her wrist, is an
inexplicably awkward situation that its becoming like a kind of obligation in
every American movie. I think their point is trying to show us once again the
old stereotype about blonde people and their low brain brightness something
that I found kind of disgusting.
Then we move forward in the movie and we find her walking inside the
hospital with a large gun in her hand and surprisingly no one notices it apart
the public who are watching it from outside of the screen, but it is when It
comes one of the more confusing things together with the illogical gun battling
that is like a parallel universe in the movie, and it is an emotional Lucy who
after has killed without feelings a large number of gangsters suddenly turns
into crying, so It is when I don’t understand if I am watching a drama movie, an
action film or philosophical thriller, I
discover later that its not any one thing in particular but a mix of
everything, it is a messy collage that
moves backwards and forwards in time with two or maybe even three different
lines and where its converging points are as pathetic as the starring of some
of its characters.
Lucy can not make it into an
action movie because we find lots of contradictory moments where she talks
about humanity and its archaic form to conceive the world but at same time
looking for help with an ordinary human doctor while killing everyone in her
way to meeting him driving recklessly like an uncivilized person, while
supposedly the drug lord is following her. Despite the philosophical lines that
are good to reflect upon, if we were watching a drama, they still cannot save
it from the confusion that results in subsequent scenes. I criticise the scriptwriter
because he didn’t know how to fit so many things in a movie, and he didn’t know
when or where to put the drama, the action or the reflective moments in the
story line. At the end, the omnipotent drug lord reaches her and tries to kill
her as if she were still vulnerable to such an attack.
Lucy, in her final act of transformation predictably steps into the
role of an omnipresent “god” like entity. She is everywhere.
Lucy is another example of a movie with a big budget spent on
marketing, in order to convince audience members to come to the cinemas to see
something that is not worth but ok for rush entertainment.
