I love Lucy (spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2014)

Lucy came out of the blue..It was upon me before i knew anything about it. i went to see it and loved it, tho wary of the MA rating. Luc Besson has made a kick ass movie about a woman who evolves beyond human limits, thanks to a drug ehs goes on the ultimate drug trip. Student Lucy in Taiwan, having fallen in with a dodgy boyfriend/drug mule, is tricked into becoming one.Lucy is all too human at the start, fearful, silly, vain, sexy...when its found whats in the suitcase, she is offered a job she cant refuse...as drug mule. While waiting to be sent home, in a grim room, she is attacked by her jailers, her belly kicked, and the drug enters her body, leading to the first extraordinary scene, as Lucy begins her journey writing up a wall and across the ceiling. Then the new kick-ass Lucy begins to appear: first bent on revenge against her tormenters, but soon her course changes, as she realises her intelligence is accelerating,and as she realises her time is running out, she resolves to go all the way by linking up with interpol to find the rest of the drug. Spaced out yet focused: thats the new Lucy. This is Limitless meets Akira: for me Lucy is more humane than Tetsuo, more desperate than Eddie. Some extraordinary scenes yet its not the hyperkinetic action scenes that appealed so much as scenes where Lucy puts the police to sleep and suspends the criminals from the ceiling (this scene being the most compelling of them all)...all the while calm and focused and beyond the need to commit violence. Action, pathos, and the quirky humor that laces the movie as she interacts with Morgan Freemans theoretician, whos exposition parallels Lucys journey. Strangely moving this movie, as Lucy explores space and time, meet the first Lucy, and in the end,arriving at 100%, dissolves into empty space and find she is everywhere. For the sceptics, don't let the dodgy science get in the way of enjoying his movie. Incidentally, the more wayout features of the film have some parallels with buddhist teachings esp on the siddhis, and dissolution of the body is a feature of Dzogchen