Lucy || Review

Lucy

Release Year: 2014 

Genre: Sci-fi, Action

Duration: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes

Director: Luc Besson

 Country: France

Language: English

The average person uses %10 of their brain capacity.

Today she will hit 100%.

Lucy... Thousands of information, an only human.

The movie was pretty interesting, I mean it wasn't like any other sci-fi movie that I've watched before. It is hard to make comments over its cast and fiction. I believe, Luc Besson did a great job here.

I think the reason behind the movie's high revenue is that the movie possess a realist fiction. There were many rational theories in the movie and except thinking like ''No way, it is just an utopia and so believing them all is silly. That's ridiculous.'' please remember that this is a sci-fi movie, not a documentary. They are all THEORIES in the end, movie is not like supporting that it is giving us scientific RULES. And REMEMBER that's how LUCY IS SEEING the life NOT THE OTHERS in the movie. If you want to see facts (but sure no one can know how can something be subjective when it is made by other people) then go watch news or scientific discussion shows etc.

Of course, using 100% of human brain seems impossible and there are some other impossible theories but the part that people have to appreciate is putting these theories into a continuous sequence within a movie. Reasons are like a play dough, it can be shaped by anything by the time and power. So, why would we just stay by one sided perspective?

Let's give an example for it from the past. There are always people who afraid of change and unknown things which are about to be discovered. Maybe the main reason behind it is that obscurity wakes the fear inside of humans, because everyone puts limits to themselves and what they will/won't know. The lines of their limits can be concrete or abstract. However, those limits might be so obvious for them and even though they want to learn the things laying beyond it, they don't try to pass those lines. What if we would be able to not to limit ourselves and go for passing through them... what would have happened?

And that's the point where ''Lucy'' takes the lead.

The movie wasn't that much predictable from the beginning to the end and I liked this fact. Even the events after the rise in her usage of brain's capacity from 10% to 28% was resulting impressively. She was looking at the life from a much different perspective and towards the ending she was loosing her humanly side. Much like alienation, she was starting the ignore the simple norms of society and also her feelings were turning into only chemical reactions of human nature but nothing more.

At this point, is our intelligence/awareness makes us suitable for being ''a human'' or our mercy/emotions?

Aside the scientific/psychological aspects, we cannot stop praising Morgan Freeman (Professor Samuel Norman) and Scarlett Johansson (Lucy)'s acting. They are like always doing good, saving movies. For sure, I cannot judge their acting though.

Mega spoiler alert: my favourite part was that the new Lucy spoke to old herself. I found this scene very meaningful and also quite sad. If we had had a change for speaking to our past self, what would have us been saying to ourselves? Sometimes think about this while acting in your lives.

If you haven't watched this movie yet, then don't be late anymore.

My rating: 4/5