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Lucy is probably luc besson's best work since 1994's Ultimate Hunt. The film itself is like a new version of "Nikita" and a Gallubeson version of "The Tree of Life" + "Limitless", simple and bright, imaginative and entertaining.
In the film, Lucy, a blonde beauty who travels to Taipei, is forced to help the Korean gangster (find the "original criminal" Korean film emperor Choi Min-sik) to transport drugs, and as a result, the accidental occurrence of drugs changes his physiological structure, like a martial arts movie to open up ren Dou's second vein and become a Gestapo. The female characters in Lubieson's films have always been distinct and three-dimensional, with Isabe loving Jenny in "The Underground", Mirachova Vicki in "The Fifth Element" and "Joan of Arc of Roubson", most famously Anna Bariyao as a female killer in "Thunderbolt", and Scarlett Johansson in "Lucy" all have the shadow of female characters in previous works, because they are all women in Lubson films.
The protagonist of the film, Lucy, is actually a female ape named after the ancient ape of the same name 3.2 million years ago, known as the "mother of mankind". This setting is a very important part of the film, which not only symbolizes the beginning of the rise of the human species, but also symbolizes the evolution of "evolution", from apes to modern humans and even to future humans in the film, and the development of the brain is a symbol of the evolution of a species' intelligence. The peculiar drug cph4 in the film (which refers to the hormone secreted by pregnant women when pregnant women are pregnant) also echoes the film's emphasis on the characteristics of birth and life.
This subject of drug stimulation has become strange, and the most recent work is Neil Burger's "The Effect of Medicine", but it is more interesting and rich than it. And the pangu open-sky and the initial imagery of the universe in "Lucy" is very similar to Terrence malick's "Immortal Tree", but of course it is not so deep and mysterious. After all, this is still the work of lu besson, a commercial director, just like Wu Yusen can never shoot a style like Hou Xiaoxian and Cai Liangliang. The film uses commercial techniques to package scientific theories and humanistic philosophies (including the origin and accumulation of knowledge of all living things), although the theoretical basis is not necessarily correct. But as a commercial entertainment film, this genre is also quite unique and interesting.
The action part of this film is still Lu Besson's good at good drama, from Taipei to Paris, gangster hunting, multinational groups, flying car chases, coupled with special functions of the imagination, this film is both a science fiction theme and fantasy meaning. The first half of the shoot is the most compact and brilliant, and the pure police action is handy. In the second half, because of Lucy, played by Scarlet Johansson, because of the drug stimulation, she gradually strengthened her brain function, becoming more and more exaggerated and bold. Lucy has since become a mutant of special abilities, simply omnipotent, traveling through time and space, teleporting, seeing through all matter, controlling any living object, and the unexpected ending of the ending has sublimated her into a god-like organism.
This part may have polarized reviews, but this kind of X-Men-like special feature is also the foundation of the movie's ability to play many tricks, and the visual presentation is colorful. It is worth mentioning the heroine Scarlett Johansen, her two recent works have been released on Taiwan, "Under the Skin" (under the skin) of the hunter-in-the-star woman, playing with the appearance of the skin bag and the complex side of human nature. This film is the embodiment of the 2014 version of Thunderbolt, which is still the unique temperament of extraordinary people. Also, Taipei under Lu Besson's lens really has an international feeling, and Taiwanese directors who want to make a good commercial film should come to see "Lucy", and there can be no excuse to say that our place is not beautiful enough for an international sense. (Written by: Alan Chu (Zhu Zhehui))
Filmography
Director: Lubieson
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman
Release date: 2014-08-20
Distribution company: Universal Pictures
Image source: (PR)