So people talk about fantasy, they like fantasy, and they even fantasize certain situation themselves. But what if there is a little fantasy in movie like Lucy? Everyone loses their minds. Everyone that speaks of Lucy as one of the over fantasized movies, should better keep their facts straight and think about movies like The Avengers and Star Wars. You probably love them, don’t you?
The Scarlett Johansson thriller, Lucy out last week is “the dumbest movie ever made about brain capacity,” writes The Atlantic’s Christopher Orr, a movie with “no brain,” writes Grantland’s Wesley Morris, that leaves you feeling “shorn of gray matter,” writes Time Out’s Keith Uhlich. A Universal Pictures release, the Europacorp film, Lucy has earned $80 million in the U.S. in two weekends despite mixed reviews.
After watching the movie myself, I thought how wrong haters were.
Yes, the idea, in Lucy, about humans only using 10% of their brains in false. And so is the idea of activating greater portions of the brain would unlock super-intelligence and super-powers approaching stuff like omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. Yes I agree, that this is not at all science. But it is good science fiction. It is a fun exploration of an alternate reality that makes you think about the one we live in.
Why all the hate?
Maybe the movie is being criticized as dumb because it is about being smart. The irony. A movie that about science, people may think, should stick to the text book.
Or maybe it is just that Americans just don’t get foreign films. Lucy does have some touch of alien in it, starting with the discussion of high philosophy. And also have some subtitles in it.
In any case, Lucy is intellectually stimulating in a way that most actions are not. Watch the movie with an open mind, and you just