Lucy

This is it.  My final post.

What a roller coaster these past couple of months have been.  It feels like I just released 10 episodes of season one of my personal television show.  I'd like to thank the academy, everyone who has supported me thus far, and my boyfriend for letting me use his Netflix account.  Much appreciated.

Let's dive in to one of the most interesting and thought-provoking films I've seen in my life.

The film kicks off with Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), after establishing a bit of character development, getting her boyfriend killed and getting kicked in the stomach after housing an illegal drug in her skin.  Kinda nasty and a bit extra, but I'm following.

However, this drug is very valuable and has incredible effects.  After she is kicked in the stomach (ouch), the bag breaks in Lucy's stomach and Lucy is then under the effects of the drug and is granted with superhuman abilities like the ability to read minds and time travel among other things.  It's pretty cool if you don't think about the fact that she had the drug in her system without her consent.

From this point on, Lucy's goal is to locate the remaining packets of the drug because of how valuable it is; your modern-day sci-fi action film.

However, Lucy's powers, like a high from any other illegal drug, starts to wear off, so she consumes more.  This is one of the underlying themes in the film that I really don't agree with.  It could be perceived that there is a notion of addiction, after Lucy only took more of the drug after it started to wear off.  Considering the fact that she was unknowingly tricked into transporting drugs to help her low-life boyfriend, this makes me even more uneasy.

I know Lucy took more so she could show that the usage of her entire brain could unlock the answers to more mysteries of the universe that were only ever theorized before, but that aspect still puts me off.

From this point on, everything really starts to get science-fiction-y.  Lucy urges to be injected with the remaining contents of the drug, hoping to discover the secrets of the universe.  She then moves into the spacetime continuum, and reveals that she is able to be everywhere at once, after witnessing the beginning of time and space itself.

Cool.

What's even MORE cool is that Lucy's main goal is to spread her realization that passing on knowledge is the key to life.  She discusses this from a little while into the film until the end with professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman).  This is what made the viewing the film so important to me.

I believe that as long as we continue to educate others with our knowledge of the world, that humanity will continue to thrive and exist.  This sparked a light in me, and made me realize truly how important it is to live by this message.  This is what inspired me to be an educator myself and become a preschool teacher, and I love what I do.

What I hope you've gained through reading my posts the past few months is that although there may be right and wrong answers in what the message is that these films try to portray, there are also many ways to perceive it yourself because there are so many different ways of thinking.

In the end, knowledge is power, and by spreading it, you're sharing the wealth.

Yeah, let's run with that.