Movie Night with LUCY

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We have been anticipating the release of LUCY after watching the trailer that was shown in the cinema. From the trailer, we kind of expected this movie to be a sci-fiction thriller. Was very curious to find out what kind of incredible powers Lucy, acted by Scarlett Johansson will possess when she unlocks her brain's potential up to the maximum of 100% and begin to have incredible powers. So we went to watch it the day it was released.

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This movie turned out to be more philosophical than sci-fi. There's discussions based on a lot of assumptions of what we already know and what we didn't know. I love how Director Luc Besson created the whole movie with intersperse of clips of wild animals and nature sceneries. There are like clips out of the National Geographical Channel. In fact, in the opening scene, we see this Chimp in prehistoric times drinking from a lake (later we find out that this Chimp is called Lucy, an australopithecus). A narration begins by asking this open question, "Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?"

Lucy was forced by her newly attached boyfriend to deliver a mysterious, locked briefcase to a man called Mr Jang, acted by South Korean actor Choi Min-Sik who can only speak in Korean and washes his bloody hand (he kills without blinking) with Evian water. The briefcase turned out to contain four packets of blue powder called CPH4. Lucy was so called "offered a job" but she declined and she was knocked out with a punch.

The scene cut off to introduce the other character. Professor Norman, acted by Morgan Freeman. He played a renowned neuroscientist and was giving a lecture on cerebral capacity. He mentioned that human beings use only 10% and that dolphins use 20% and thus has the power to echolocate. He concluded that if humans could reach up to 40% of our cerebral capacity, we would be able to manipulate matter but when asked what would happen if humans brain reach 100%, he says he has no idea.

"If its habitat is not sufficiently favourable, or nurturing, the cell will choose immortality, in other words, self-sufficiency and self management. On the other hand, if the habitat is favourable, they will choose to reproduce - that way, when they die, they hand essential information and knowledge to the next cell, which hands it down to the next cell, and so on. Thus knowledge and learning are handed down, through time."

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The scene cuts back to Lucy. The "job" that she and three other guys were offered was to transport the blue packets to their assigned destination. The blue packet was already placed inside each of their body. While transporting her to the airport, one of the thugs kicked her in the lower abdomen, causing the plastic containing the CPH4 to break and a small quantity was absorbed into Lucy's system. That is also when it shows that she started gradually unlocking her brain's capacity.

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"Time is the only true unit of measure, it gives proof to the existence of matter, without time, we don't exist." She explained how when a car is fast forward by infinity times, it will disappear. Can't even see the car anymore.

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Leads me to think of this quote.

Lucy's Special Power

She begins to lurch herself all over the room including up the walls reaching the ceiling until she falls back to the ground and her eyes changing colours.

She can choose not to feel pain. She went to the nearest hospital, asked the doctor to cut open her stomach to remove the remaining packet of the blue powder inside her body. All done without using any anesthesia. Throughout the operation, she was on the line with her mother and telling her mother how she can feels everything - the air, the blood in her veins, the deepest parts of her memories, like when she was sick as a child or even petting a cat when she was barely one. But she cannot feel the pain of the operating knife.

She is now able to do translation in her brain. She can even tell what illness her friend is suffering from just by looking at her. She can also control the electrons and contacted the professor, appearing on the TV screen at the professor's house.

She is now able to changed into any looks that she desire. She changed her hair from blond to black so that she won't be recognised.

She now display different forms of teleknesis, psychokinesis, able to read cell-phone conversation by picking them out. Creating invisible walls, controlling others movement just by standing there and not laying a fingers on them.

At 90% to 99%, she has absorbed the three other packets of the CPH4 and she started moving through time and space with a black dress and sitting on an office chair. She visits Times Square, encounter dinosaurs and back to meeting Lucy the australopithecus.

At 100%. she just disappear out of her black dress. The machines in the room turned into something black and eventually became a thumbdrive that was offered to Professor Norman. A handphone message that reads, "I am everywhere." appears to be from Lucy.

Movie closed with, "Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it."