Open your minds

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2017)

I didn't see this when it was out at the cinema because the posters made it look like a "medusa touch" horror, and I don't like being scared. I've just watched it on terrestrial TV, though, and I was sucked in by it after a few minutes.
It starts off quite camp, but the ideas behind it I thought were more grown up, and they don't deserve the dissing that is meted out in reviews.
Spoiler: | | | | \/ The idea that reality is very complex seems to be backed up by quantum entanglement experiments, dark energy conjectures, and variable speed of light hypothesis. We've even got to the point where physicists are claiming many universes might exist, continuously dividing, or that we are all living inside a computer simulation. The idea that the human brain is too primitive to process this complex reality also seems fair. The idea that the human brain constructs a simple model of the world in order to enable it to function in a complex universe therefore seems highly plausible. Some people have even gone as far as saying that time is an illusory construct to stop everything from happening at once. ISTR in the film, Lucy says that time is what gives legitimacy to matter. If a higher brained being did see things as they truly are, rather than in a mirror darkly, is it unreasonable to think that he might be able to smash the illusion, or to take control? I therefore don't think the antigravity, telekinesis, precognition etc is so silly.