Watched Lucy in JB with Zoe, it was honestly a very thought provoking movie for me especially the end. I was so engrossed with the ending as a myriad of thoughts were rushing into my head so I made a mental note to google a review to see what others thought. Unexpectedly, almost all the reviews on the first page were negative reviews that were so sarcastic and borderline retarded that did not provide any meaningful review and discussion. So here I am.
First of all, I just wanna raise a gigantic middle finger to those negative reviews that jumped on the bandwagon and bashed Lucy due to scientific fallacies. Every review pointed out a glaring loophole that human beings do not just use 10% of the brain. This is a freaking sci-fi movie, its NOT meant to be true in the first place? I'm sure those people must be a joy to have in parties, do we ever question the scientific facts behind gamma rays that made the Hulk? Do we question the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker? Do we question what brand of shampoo Asgarde sold? Same goes to the scientific background of the CPH4 drug, who cares whether its really produced by a pregnant lady or whether it really forms the skull or whatever? Its just a science- FICTION movie. Please.
I personally felt that the last few minutes were the crux of the show. I was trying to understand what the director/scriptwriter wanted to tell us and what is his stand. The biggest question I had after the show ended was: Is this show trying to make us think about creationism vs evolution? If thats the case what did the scriptwriter think? What is his stand?
It seems that at 99% Lucy became one with time and could go back in time, which is quite interesting because it definitely showed evolution and the reverse big bang and first life forms were jellyfish (immortality throwback?) lookalikes and lastly crooked looking plants and finally the first cell.
At 100%, Lucy disappeared. Now everything up to this point has been a recount of the movie. From this point onwards its just what I felt after watching. It seems that the scriptwriter is leaning towards creationism since at 100%, Lucy essentially became God.
At 30% she was already showing signs of omniscient (all knowing with quantum physics, applied mathematics, memories, knowing all about another person by touching them etc), at 40-50% she was showing signs of omnipotence (all powerful, controlling objects and people at will etc) and at 99% - 100% she showed signs of omnipresence. (Controlling time, and that sms "I am everywhere " )
So the order of 99% and 100% actually mattered quite significantly to me. At 99% Lucy saw evolution and she wasn't "everywhere" yet, furthermore she actually saw the first cell, that was only possible if God came first and created the first cell. If cells came first before God, would God still be able to see the first cell that created him? I'm not too sure about the time travelling mechanics for God. Did God proceed to create lifeforms who were similar to himself and realised that it requires too much sustenance and slowly proceeded to "dumb down" till evolution took place? At least thats what I felt the scriptwriter was trying to say or maybe I'm just thinking too much/little.
Some things I could not think through.
1) The Lucy fingering the monkey scene appeared before dinosaurs. Not sure if there was a significance with that timeline.
2) First female monkey also called Lucy. I must have missed some sort of link. So did Lucy went to the first female monkey and passed on her knowledge of evolution to that monkey by connecting fingers? No idea because it conflicts with what I thought the scriptwriter was trying to imply.
Some random closing thoughts:
Scriptwriter must have thought funny people are smarter. When the junkie snorted the CPH4 directly into his nose, he started to laugh like a manic. What if taking in huge amounts of CPH4 actually results in a being that is so humorous that nothing is funny enough to make her laugh anymore? What if Robin Williams reached 100% and was so funny that nothing could make him laugh anymore and he just disintegrated and became God?
That random thought lead to Zoe and I trying to come up with a definition for a joke. According to dictionary: a joke is a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
Using what we learnt in N**, we came up with a new definition of joke: A statement that engages the prior knowledge of the audience that causes a disequilibrium and results in a laughing response while trying to achieve equilibrium with the punchline.
So, "life was given to us a billion years ago, now you know what to do with it."
Yes I do indeed, party hard, overdose on drugs and evolve into a flash drive/hard disk/cloud storage.
