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A woman is casually involved in shady deals. She manages to take revenge on her blackmailers and becomes a ruthless warrior.
Luc Besson
Scarlett Johansson
Morgan Freeman
Choi Min-sik
Amr Waked
Pilou Asbæk

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“Time gives legitimacy to its existence. Time is the only true unit of measure. It gives proof to the existence of matter. Without time, we don't exist.”
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Lucy (2014)
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Lucy (2014)

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“Time gives legitimacy to its existence. Time is the only true unit of measure. It gives proof to the existence of matter. Without time, we don't exist.”

SCARLETT JOHANSSON - Lucy

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Scarlett JohanssonMorgan FreemanChoi Min-sikAmr WakedPilou Asbæk

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Luc Besson

Luc Besson is one of the most famous movie directors. He is also known for directing The Fifth Element, all the Arthur movies, and also, more recently, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

A woman is casually involved in shady deals. She manages to take revenge on her blackmailers and becomes a ruthless warrior.

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My personal opinion about Lucy (2014) I personally really liked this movie. The scenario is quite simple. Basically, it is just the story of how someone managed to access to a superior form of intelligence and mentality. But, overall, I thought it was really interesting to imagine a way to access to a certain cognitive elevation, and also to imagine what it could happen if someone manage to use 100% of his brain capacity, and this is why I liked this movie. If i have to find some negative aspectss, I could say that the intermediate stages between 10% and 100% of brain capacities aren't, detailled, and imagined enough. I think we could explore this side of the topic more deeply.

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Lucy is an American studying in Taipei, Taiwan. Her new boyfriend Richard tricks her into working as a drug mule for a South Korean kkangpae and drug lord, and she delivers a briefcase containing four packets of the highly valuable synthetic drug CPH4 to Mr. Jang. After witnessing Richard being shot and killed, she is captured and a bag of the drug is forcibly sewn into her abdomen in order to transport the drug to Europe. While in captivity, she is kicked in the stomach, breaking the bag and releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. She acquires increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and the ability to feel no pain. She also becomes both ruthless and emotionless. Using her new abilities, she kills her captors and escapes. Lucy travels to the nearby Tri-Service General Hospital to get the bag of drugs removed from her abdomen. She is told by the operating doctor that natural CPH4 is produced in tiny quantities by pregnant women during their sixth week of pregnancy to provide fetuses with th energy to develop. Growing heightened physical and mental abilities, Lucy returns to Mr. Jang's hotel, kills his bodyguards, assaults him, and telepathically extracts the locations of the three remaining drug mules from his brain. Lucy begins researching her condition and contacts scientist Samuel Norman whose research may be the key to saving her. After Lucy speaks with Norman (and provides proof of her developed abilities) she flies to Paris and contacts local police captain Pierre Del Rio to help her find the remaining three packets of the drug. During the flight, she starts to disintegrate as her cells destabilize from consuming a sip of champagne. To stave off her disintegration Lucy ingests more of the drug. With the help of Del Rio, Lucy is able to recover the rest of the drugs. Meeting Norman and his colleagues, she agrees to share with them everything she knows. In the professor's lab, Lucy discusses the nature of time and life and how people's humanity distorts their perceptions. At her urging, she is intravenously injected with the contents of all three remaining bags of CPH4. Her body changes into a black substance that begins spreading over computers and other electronic objects in the lab, transforming them all into one next-generation supercomputer. She mentally begins a spacetime journey into the past, eventually reaching the oldest discovered ancestor of mankind, Lucy. She shares a quiet moment with australopithecus Lucy and the two touch fingertips, she then goes all the way to the beginning of time and witnesses the Big Bang. Meanwhile, Jang enters the lab and points a gun at Lucy's head. He shoots, but by that point Lucy has reached 100% of her brain capacity and promptly disappears, moving into the spacetime continuum. Only her clothes and the black supercomputer are left behind. Del Rio enters and fatally shoots Jang. Norman takes a black flash drive offered by the supercomputer, after which it too disintegrates. Del Rio asks Norman where Lucy is, immediately after which Del Rio's cell phone sounds and he sees a text message: "I am everywhere." Lucy's voice is heard stating "Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it."

To what extent this movie explore and imagine how could the transhumanist movement evolve ?

Lucy

After holding a conference about the human cognitive capacities, this scientist played by Morgan Freeman will help Lucy discover all her abilities, all along the movie.

Professor Samuel Norman

Played by Scarlett Johansson will be involved in a drug traffic, against her will. She is going to get injected some new experimental drug, which will make her brain evolve.

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Because it let us imagine a future in which artificial substances can be used to enhance our capacities

For example, this movie let us imagine a world in which a new experimental drug is created, and can be used to enhance human capacities, and do unbelievable things.

Why can we relate this movie to the transhumanist movement ?

TO CONCLUDE

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