Lucy “Lucy” by Luc Besson, the Acturation of Science Fiction “Lucy” was a greater success than you remember. Modestly budgeted at only $ 40 million (a large part of which has probably gone to the salary of Star Scarlett Johansson) and armed with an incredibly ridiculous plot, “Lucy” won more than $ 450 million at the International Box-Office, confusing almost everyone. The criticisms were simply warm on “Lucy”, which gave him widely indifferent and / or vaguely positive criticisms. The film has a criticism of 67% on Rotten tomatoes (Based on 236 criticism), the words “idiots” and “ridiculous” being used a lot to describe it.

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When writing these lines, “Lucy” becomes a success on Netflix, with / Flixpatrol Reporting that the film has ranked among the 10 best films in service in the United States since (at least) on April 15, 2025, on April 21. Besson himself became Persona Non Grata in the cinema community due to several accusations of sexual misconduct (associated with the fact that he began to go out with his second wife at the age of 15 and that he was 32 years old). The charges against Besson were abandoned Due to the lack of evidence, but he has not been successful for some time. His career was not helped by the fact that her 2017 film “Valerian and the city of a thousand planets” bombed quite strongeither.

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Be that as it may, Netflix subscribers are distracted by the sparkling flash of “Lucy”, happy to watch Johansson play a woman improved by drugs that allow themselves superpower which allow her to kick her ass with APLOMB. It does not matter that the end of the film is, as the critics have pointed out, an absolute nonsense.

“Lucy” is based on a myth on the human brain which remains frustrating and persistent to date. You may have heard that human beings only use 10% of their brain, which leads to the hypothesis that the remaining 90% must simply be “activated” to unlock our real mental potential. In reality, we use all our brains throughout our lives, and there is no 90% which must be “unlocked”. We are quite intelligent, provided we continue to learn new things. “Lucy” is one of those science fiction films that grants her superpowers of main characters by simply explaining that they finally use 100% of their brain. It seems that when we use our whole brain, we can do wild stuff like projecting our consciousness over time and evolving bodily into a computer terminal (!).

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The story of “Lucy” has the impression that Besson has just caught up on the fly. Johansson plays Lucy, an American traveling to Taiwan who is invited by her boyfriend to deliver a mysterious suitcase. Lucy accidentally discovers that the suitcase contains a new strange narcotic called CPH4, and a gang of drug traffickers forces him to act like a drug mule, setting up drug drugs and ordering him to go to Korea. On the way, the drug bags break inside Lucy, giving her a massive dose. Drugs impregnated him with superpowers, including the ability to read spirits and commit acts of telekinesis. It initially fights drug traffickers and helps some international cops to confiscate drugs more, but ultimately begins to cross a sort of strange mental line. As she does, Lucy really comes to see the nature of reality, which inspires her to take more CPH4 deliberately.

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Then things become really bizarre. I will not reveal the end, but I involved some of the bizarre things that happen above.

There can be a strange myth of empowerment somewhere inside “Lucy”. After all, it is a victim woman who turns the tables on her captors. The evil kidnappers who would force a woman to become a drug mule could not have predicted that the very drugs that they want to sell would transform it into an instrument of justice. But at the same time, “Lucy” also seems to imply that taking drugs is a very good idea. Remember that children, if the evil criminals offer you an experimental chemical, this will give you super powers.

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“Lucy” came at one time in Johansson’s career as she was beginning to seek her place apparently in the firmament of pop culture. She had Already appeared in some Marvel Studios films By 2014 and became an expert in the “improved” non-human role play (superhero included). Either that or she was launched in projects according to her attractive, by playing “The Pretty One” in films like “Don Jon” and “He is simply not that”. The quality of his performances varies, but films like “Lucy” tended to emphasize how much Johansson was traded as a non -human goddess.

Strangely, “Lucy” was only released a few months after Johansson played in Jonathan Glazer’s science fiction film “Under the Skin”. In this film, Johnasson plays a space extraterrestrial that had taken the skin of a human woman and uses the attractiveness of this human to sexually attract men in a bizarre extraterrestrial space where they are consumed and used as fuel. The foreigner has become perfectly aware that he looked like Scarlett Johansson and reflects on the reason why humans react to a body that looks like that. Johansson deconstructed his own image with the film, faced with the way in which his body is so often commodity.

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Perhaps “Lucy”, despite his stupidity, is another actor’s attempt to force the public to examine their own habits of the objective. She is no longer a body. It is the greatest spirit in the world.