Lucy
Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 8 months ago to Movies
Lucy / Rated R for violence, sex, and sci fi tricks.
Lucy is a movie that is being sold as a thriller, super hero story. This is not exactly correct. In fact the previews cleverly hide what is really going on in this tale. Much to my surprise and amusement it has the elements of thriller and the presence of a kind of super hero but it’s really about something else altogether.
Let me give you a few hints. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick wrote and filmed a story about space travel and mystery with technology run amok in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In the end the film surprised us with elements indicating it was about something else altogether. What happened to the astronaut at the end of the story? Not sure. Join a legion of fans. Other films and stories also show a presence. HG Wells’ The Time Machine (1960 version) and a similar short story tells about a man discovering a way to evolve with some surprising results. I would mention the name of this story but it eludes me. Age. Other movies like Electric Dreams (1984) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) (my favorite 1950’s B SciFi film) are front and center. What happens to the computer at the end of ED and where does Scott Carey, the protagonist of TISM, go at the end when he exits his house from a pore in a screen window in the basement? Same place as the Astronaut in 2001?
The story of Lucy is beautifully imagined and visualized with stunning special efx images and clever plot devices to move the story forward. Lucy only runs 89 minutes including the end credits. It is a monument to intelligent screen editing. Cut out what you don’t need and if what you have on film is good the editing will make it outstanding.
Lucy, played by Scarlett Johansson, is a young lady living in the Orient who gets involved in a drug smuggling deal that goes bad. She ends up a quasi super hero which is what most folks going to the film think the story is all about. Wrong. They are thinking of the current Marvel series The Avengers in which SJ plays a true super hero, The Black Widow. This story is something else altogether. See references above.
Along for the ride is Morgan Freeman as a Professor with theories of the human brain that are all hypothesis until they start happening right before his unbelieving eyes.
Luc Besson usually makes violent pot boilers with rather dimwitted stories and mass amounts of blood and gore. There is a bit of it here but ignore it. When the blood stops the real story begins. Where it’s going and what you will see on the way to the ending is what I can say no more about.
Driving home after this movie I thought a lot about the images and outcome. This movie effected me the same way all of those I mention above. Which was massive.
Rated 3.9 out of 4.0 on the way to 100%
Lucy is a movie that is being sold as a thriller, super hero story. This is not exactly correct. In fact the previews cleverly hide what is really going on in this tale. Much to my surprise and amusement it has the elements of thriller and the presence of a kind of super hero but it’s really about something else altogether.
Let me give you a few hints. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick wrote and filmed a story about space travel and mystery with technology run amok in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In the end the film surprised us with elements indicating it was about something else altogether. What happened to the astronaut at the end of the story? Not sure. Join a legion of fans. Other films and stories also show a presence. HG Wells’ The Time Machine (1960 version) and a similar short story tells about a man discovering a way to evolve with some surprising results. I would mention the name of this story but it eludes me. Age. Other movies like Electric Dreams (1984) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) (my favorite 1950’s B SciFi film) are front and center. What happens to the computer at the end of ED and where does Scott Carey, the protagonist of TISM, go at the end when he exits his house from a pore in a screen window in the basement? Same place as the Astronaut in 2001?
The story of Lucy is beautifully imagined and visualized with stunning special efx images and clever plot devices to move the story forward. Lucy only runs 89 minutes including the end credits. It is a monument to intelligent screen editing. Cut out what you don’t need and if what you have on film is good the editing will make it outstanding.
Lucy, played by Scarlett Johansson, is a young lady living in the Orient who gets involved in a drug smuggling deal that goes bad. She ends up a quasi super hero which is what most folks going to the film think the story is all about. Wrong. They are thinking of the current Marvel series The Avengers in which SJ plays a true super hero, The Black Widow. This story is something else altogether. See references above.
Along for the ride is Morgan Freeman as a Professor with theories of the human brain that are all hypothesis until they start happening right before his unbelieving eyes.
Luc Besson usually makes violent pot boilers with rather dimwitted stories and mass amounts of blood and gore. There is a bit of it here but ignore it. When the blood stops the real story begins. Where it’s going and what you will see on the way to the ending is what I can say no more about.
Driving home after this movie I thought a lot about the images and outcome. This movie effected me the same way all of those I mention above. Which was massive.
Rated 3.9 out of 4.0 on the way to 100%
I feel I need to be able to identify contradictions like this to protect my mind from going down a wrong path. We need to unlock our potential, but it will not end in denying existence.
"true super hero"? You mean like Todd Beamer, Audie Murphy, Captain Sully?
So THAT was the name of Scarlett Johansson's character in Iron Man 2 and The Avengers.
I didn't realize she was playing a super hero, just a super bitch. Considering that she works for an evil organization, don't know you can call the character any kind of "hero".