A Scintilla-tingly Breath Stopping movie, transforms us i.e. viewers to a paradise of ideas.
One such movie is Lucy (2014) by Luc Besson with a rank performance by
Scarlett Johansson.
The movie is
about a cell level transformation of an individual which unleashes 100 percent
utilization of brain.
Below
conversation from the movie conveys message beautifully:
How did you manage to access all
this information?
Electrical impulses.
Every cell knows and talks to
every other cell.
They exchange a thousand bits
of information between them per second.
Cells group together, forming a
giant web of communication, which in turn forms matter.
Cells get together, take on one
form, deform, reform.
Makes no difference, it's all
the same.
Humans consider themselves
unique, so they've rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness.
"One" is their unit
of measure.
But it's not.
All social systems we've put into
place are a mere sketch.
One plus one equals two.
That's all we've learned.
But one plus one has never
equaled two.
There are, in fact, no numbers
and no letters.
We've codified our existence to
bring it down to human size to make it comprehensible.
We've created a scale so that
we can forget its unfathomable scale.
But if humans are not the unit
of measure and the world isn't governed by mathematical laws, what governs all
that?
Film a car speeding down a
road.
Speed up the image infinitely and
the car disappears.
So what proof do we have of its
existence?
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.
Time is unity.
Scene clip for the above is provided below:
This does not stop here; curiosity
took me to an interview of Luc Besson in Wired Magazine.
According to me he was best
suited to direct (and writer) the movie. We have to remember he had directed
Leon The Professional and other movies.
I wish to reproduce section of
the interview which is worth to be mentioned here:
"The good thing with
movies is that you mix up everything and then in the end it looks real."
"I wanted to de-structure
the storytelling, because I wanted the people to be ready at the end to believe
something unbelievable,"
"You know the story of
Achilles? For me Achilles without the tendon is of no interest. His weakness
makes him interesting. That's what I like about women. It's difficult for a
woman to compete with a man because he's usually stronger, so women have to be
more clever, more intelligent, more sneaky, more everything. They have to find
another way and that is so attractive."
“….For this type of film you
don't need a star, you need an actress."
The passion for the movie can
be felt in this statement:
"I was fascinated by this
subject." Besson spent the next nine years talking with neuroscientists to
learn more and writing the script. "I'm like a sponge, I need to know a
lot before I can start to make a feature film" he says. "My first
idea was to say, 'OK, I want to do a thriller, I want to do something
entertaining, but I want some food in it.' You can't talk about the brain and
just be goofy. … But when the script was ready, I really, really loved it. I
wanted to do it, there was no way I would give this script to anybody else."
At the end of the interview
Besson rightly spells out the purpose of our existence i.e. Cells passing on
the knowledge:
“Most thrillers have a quest
for power, Besson explains, and there's usually a bad guy who wants it and a
good guy who wants to prevent them. In Lucy, an average woman gets
the greatest power imaginable and has no choice but to try and pass on her
knowledge (which is virtually infinite by the end). "The first line she
has when she knows that she's going to get all the power, she says, 'I don't
know what to do with it,'" he says. "Usually they know what they want
to do with it. They want to destroy, they want to steal, they want to conquer.
But at this level of power, the only thing she can do is pass it on. I think
it's such a lesson, because that's exactly what the cell—which is the first
image of the film—that's what the cell is doing, just passing on everything she
knows to the other one."
Disclosure: I have not watched
the full movie. This post is based on the clips I managed to watch in YouTube.
Source:
Link for dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwObck9twes
