It works, if you think you're just human,.... ;-)

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2016)

Seems like a film like this should stand out along with the line-up of films from 2014. Either that, or it's seriously underrated. This film works on multiple levels, due to the science fiction side of the story. Your interpretation will swing one way, or the other on what the script-writers deliver to the storyline. There really is no need to develop many of the characters for something like this. You can, but that will either draw out the storyline too much, or enhance the tone of the film depending on the viewer. No, a standard 90 film length is perfectly fine for this plot. Why is it that we only use about 10% of our brain?? The real answer is simple and hard to understand, depending how you process it. The funny thing is,....the plot decides to leave God out of the equation, therefore, you're going to fall back on a more humanistic approach. This film is man's attempt to find the answers,.....but isn't that the REAL definition of 'religion'?? If you go back to what Lucy says about time and space, she specifically said that we are all subjected to time, the day were born to the day we die. We can't change that, therefore, we can't look at our lives in the viewpoint of a 'timeline', so to speak. In this sense, Lucy becomes like God. Does this mean we're destined to be gods?? The Mormons seem to think so, but that would mean we would create our own worlds, so to speak, and they wouldn't be as inclined to overlap to create the 'environment' we live in. The real reason why we don't use more the 10% is because knowledge gives power to do things. In a perfect world, no one would want to 'test the limits', or have the desire to 'sin'. It's temptation being removed from the equation, but in the 'world' we live in, the sin and temptation do exist. Where's the balance?? Wouldn't it then make sense to answer to the deity than ignore it?? Again, I go back to the idea that this story is about a world 'without' God in the equation. It's fine on its own, but to say that the material presented in this movie is real, would go back to the 'evolution' idea. Of course, what you see on the film isn't real. Everything that is linked together is purely fiction.