Background

I watched this movie when it first came out with my parents. I didn’t really want to watch it because I am not a fan of science fiction, but once I was that Morgan Freeman played a part in this movie I was all for watching it. The director Luc Besson also made a couple of other French movies that I like, and this one is now on my list.

 

 

Plot

The movie starts with a guy named Richard who didn’t want to go deliver a locked case to a Korean hotel. He instead handcuffs it to Lucy his girlfriend and makes her deliver it. Scared out of her mind and not speaking a word of Korean, she goes inside and asks for the owner of the case to come pick it up. His scary men come down and escort her to his office, after shooting Richard. They make Lucy open the case revealing four bags of synthetic CPH4, a chemical that pregnant women make so that their fetuses can develop. Once Lucy wakes up from being knocked out she feels a lot of pain in her abdomen. The Koreans had placed one of the four packages of drugs in her abdomen so they could smuggle it back in the US. She is knocked out once again and when she wakes up once more she finds herself chained to a wall. A man comes in and tries to touch her, but after getting rejected by him, he decides to kick her in the abdomen where she has the drugs. This opens the drugs making them leak into her body causing her body to absorb it. She then starts unlocking parts of her brain that are closed off to all humans. She goes on a journey trying to escape the Koreans who put the drugs in her while unlocking more and more of her brain, giving her more and more supernatural abilities. She meets up with a professor in Paris whose specialty is the capacity of the human brain. The movie ends with her building a super-computer out of matter that is found in the room and giving him all the information in the world, from before the Big Bang up until the present. She reaches 100% of her brain and disappears physically but lets the professor know that she is now everywhere.

 

 

Why I like it

This was a very captivating movie. As the professor explains what would happen as you unlock a certain percentage of your brain you see Lucy experiencing that change. She gains incredible abilities such as x-ray vision and being able to change herself physically. You also have a sad scene where she calls her mother telling her she remembers and feels everything from touching a family cat at the only couple months old, to every kiss her parents had given her. You see her losing touch with humanity and having it replaced with visions of how the universe works.

 

 

Why I recommend it

I recommend this movie to people who enjoy science fiction movies, but also to those that don’t. I am not a big fan of them but this movie was had a very interesting way of describing the world. It was pretty easy to follow even if the concept of the human brain is a little confusing.

 

 

Other’s reactions

My dad did not like the end of this movie, he thought it felt rushed and ruined it. On the contrary, the end made perfect sense and gave a good explanation of what was happening to her and how she was dealing with it. I guess you’ll just have to watch it and come to your own conclusion. Here is a link to watch the trailer on YouTube.

 

 

Comparison to other movies

This movie is quite different from the movies I’ve watched. I had never seen a movie that explained why we function the way we do and what would happen if we evolved. There are movies that show a person evolving and becoming a superhero, but this one didn’t glorify the main character, instead, it showed her struggle to understand what was happening to her.