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First, I gave it 5 stars, to counteract all the crappy ratings it was getting.
Second, 4 stars is how I truly feel about it. I liked it.
I think the reason that it has received such low ratings, is that people do not understand what the movie is trying to say; ie what the movie is about.
To a degree, that was probably due to the way it was marketed: "A woman is done wrong and goes balistic with super human abilities and kicks butt." WRONG.
The movie mainly has a SPIRITUAL message. It combines a little science, and religious teaching from several religions to try to posit a reason for our creation, our existence. When you look at it THAT way, it becomes intriguing..mainly because so few people try to do this in films.
BUT, the ideas are much higher than most people reach. Like total body fitness is more than most people attempt to achieve. SO most people only have a vague idea of what the ..little bits of philosophy are leading to...just like most people only have a vague idea of what they need to do to get and stay fit.( Even though the filmmaker put a ton of symbolism in the visuals, and a dab of science in the commentaries.)
This movie is about explaining why were we created. It takes it's clue to the path that it suggests is the reason of our creation by saying,
"Hey look, we have this huge brain, but most of us use less than 10% of it. Dolphins use more and have developed sonar. What would happen if we could use more?
Were we supposed to use more?
When we were first made, as animals did we use less? Yes.
And as we evolved, did we use more? Yes.
So if we evolve further will we use more of our brains? Probably.
So if we did, what would we be able to do then? (the movie makes some suggestions in the enhanced abilities of Lucy.)
Then the movie asks: Why put this use unused portion of our brains in us, why didn't we just grow it as we evolved, like most animals?
Here's where the movie gets spiritual/ religious....
And it is probably because the writers were not clearer in their understanding that the movie was not clearer
For instance they named the main character "Lucy" after the first identified ancestor of humanity
It might have been a better clue for the audience if they had named her "Eve."
Because they are sort of connecting to this and that in both science and religion. Eve might have been more appropriate because it was she that ate of the Tree of Good and Evil, prompting God to expel she and Adam...in the "allegory", so that they would not ALSO eat of the tree of Knowledge, and gain ALL knowledge so that they understood what God understood.
In the "story of Eden"...(a story written in the Bible for children to explain on a level they might understand on) it explains to man that they were made in God's image. (thus the movie suggests...the huge brain, with huge capacity) And were removed from Eden to prevent them from accessing the total capability of the brain by eating of the Tree of Knowledge (in the movie represented by the chemical CPH4 -- supposedly a compound manufactured by the mother in the 6th week of the fetus's life in a very minute quantity, that causes the fetus to rapidly develop and grow)
So essentially, in the movie you see the heroine be given the Tree of Knowledge and what happens to her.
Like many religious writers have noted, that as you progress along the path of knowledge about God, your consciousness becomes higher and the feelings...both good and bad...of normal humans become much less. So that love, and hate, fear and pain; are much less. You see this reflected in Lucy.
BUT though the movie uses understandings that many religious writers have come to understand...it also tries to create it's own new ideas of why we were made, what it all means. AND here is why it only gets a 4 and not a 5 from me. They were lazy.
For instance they suggest that the purpose of creating man was that the purpose of knowledge is to expand. In their conception, God is knowledge.
Then they say something along the lines that Time is everything. Time interprets everything.
I think study of God, and spiritual teachings, and even philosophy show that time is an artificial construct.
Philosophy argues, that what changes is not real, because what is real is permanent, and unchangeable.
I am not a scientist, but I think along those lines, science may argue that Time is simply a measure that humans use to try to understand the world around them.
The Bible tells us that God is present in the past, the present, and the future ALL at the same time. So this negates time as something that is real.
That it seems real to humans is that our bodies have a limited existence as we are currently experiencing them on a physical plain. But spirituality has always indicated that the physical world is illusion and only the spiritual world that continues on forever, the reality.
So in the movie, Lucy attempt to explain this as "None of us ever really dies." Basically what Jesus tried to tell us, and show us, with his life and teachings.
So this is mainly a spiritual movie, marketed as a scary, sci-fi, slasher movie. Which it is not even that.
There are NO nude scenes. Only a few sexually suggestive scenes. The violence is there, but serves a purpose more than not, and is not gratuitous, and not grossly bloody...like in Robo Cop.
It tries for artistic qualities, and maybe it does OK with that for instance there is a woman giving a manicure? to the head of the oriental bad guy group...and she has on her back a tattoo of what appears to be Mary (mother of G) but where Mary would be there is only a skeleton. Then we see Lucy come striding down the hall in a surgery gown, billowing out like the tattooed picture. She is caring guns, and shoots through a closed door (this was confusing to me initially, because the movie expects you to just understand that Lucy by this time can see through objects, since she can also see the living energy in beings...) As the door opens you notice she has accurately shot all the mob's hench men and one is dying as as he does it looks like he is making observance to her as he bows down to the floor in death. (Thus Mary portrayed as death...get it...I know, sort of a stretch...sort of offensive) There were many more and varied instances of symbolism, trying to slip in little comments on what the movie was about, or what was about to happen.
The movie also tries to get you up to scientific speed by interspersing a lecture by a neuroscience about the capacity of the brain.
I think the movie could have done better without all the violence. I am wondering if maybe some of that was upped and marketed to sell the film to people that like that. IF so, the message is going to be largely wasted, as it was by the low ratings.
The acting was good=points. The movie flowed well=points, and seldom lost interest=points, except initially while Lucy argued with the man that wanted her to take a case in to the oriental group..but is attention getting enough so you could watch it a few more times. Where it probably lost points for most people was in confusion. Confusion of those there for blood and guts ...why it was not more of that and sex...and confusion of the sci fi group trying to understand the science...and irritation of the spiritual at some just lazy thinking. Where it picked up points, is that for many movies,ANY attempt at thinking is rare.
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Fun film, excellent condition for "Used"
*Edit update* My original review stands on film and seller. However if this edit is approved, I have to add thus. I had trouble finding this Bluray. I finally purchased when the listing showed "Last Item" as we often see on Amazon. So this cost me a bit more than I would normally pay. But if it was the last one, who knows right..? But last night I was looking something up on the purchase and I noticed there were 3 "Prime" New Bluray editions for sale at $5. That is endlessly annoying to me. I've paid double for a used version basically. And even if that used version was just as good as new, who pays twice for a used version of anything..? My complaint of it stands is with the "system" marking the "Last Item" for sale. On older movies that you actually have trouble finding, one might believe it's a last chance. When apparently it's just "Marketing" * Purchased "Used-Like New" and impressively that's how it arrived and played. Digital code, and slip cover included. Only thing missing was the plastic wrap of a "New" item. Shipped quickly, in a box. Possibly a media mailer would be cheaper? Over all the $ of both was a bit high for an older, "niche" film, but if it's the last copy someone can find and they're willing to pay, then I one can hardly complain for paying it. Overall I like the film. Not going to win any awards but I like the graphics, style and production enough to have it in my collection. Many people might call this a bad movie. But if you like this type of movie, who cares what they say. It's a fun watch.
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