A 21st Century Version of The Incredible Shrinking Man

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2015)

I had just graduated from high school - 1956 - when I saw the movie, The Incredible Shrinking Man. I will never forget the ending as he battles what he believes at the time is the last threat to his life, when he discovers - there is yet one more surprise the universe has waiting for him. I pondered it, dreamed about it, and have thought about it many times still, over the years. Yes, I am no longer young. But age and the experiences of years season you, prepare you, inspire you, and when you see a movie like "Lucy" - you remember. You may indeed live as long as I have,but in the meantime, take a moment and just read the following, even it you don't order the movie on your Netflix:
The Closing Monologue from the science fiction classic, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
"I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night.
And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist!"
Very Lucy Indeed !!