Lucy: what to understand from the ending of Luc Besson’s film?

Lucy by Luc Besson: a huge box office success

Luciadirected and written by Luc Besson is a science fiction film starring Scarlett Johansson that had great success in global box office, grossing more than $463 million (a record for a French production) in 2014. Mixing action, science fiction and philosophy, Lucia asks questions about human abilities to transcend ourselves and ends on an enigmatic note, paving the way for various interpretations.

The film follows an ordinary student in the city of Taipei, who finds herself drawn into the world of drug trafficking against her will. After ingesting an experimental drug, called CPH4, which colonizes her brain cells, she acquires extraordinary brain abilities, beyond known human limits. The plot explores the idea that humans use only a small portion of their brain potential and imagines the possibilities if that potential were fully exploited.

Lucy movie ending explained

As the film nears the end, Lucy reaches the full potential of her brain abilities. Having acquired an almost divine consciousness, embarks on a journey through time and space, going back to the origins of humanity, even crossing dinosaurs. His meeting with Lucia, the australopithecus, is a scene that evokes Michelangelo’s fresco “The Creation of Adam” with the two fingers touching.

This interaction symbolizes a bridge between humanity’s distant past and its present, suggesting a transfer of knowledge and continuity in human evolution.

In the following moments, Lucy transforms into an advanced digital entity, representing ultimate knowledge and power. Create a black USB stick, containing all the knowledge she has acquired. By handing this key to Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), Lucy offers a powerful symbol of knowledge, recalling a modern allegory of Kubrick’s monolith in 2001, A Space Odyssey(one of Luc Besson’s supposed influences for the film), an emblematic element representing evolution and discovery.

Lucy’s physical disappearance at the end of the film, leaving behind the message “I’m everywhere“, marks his ascension to a state of omnipresence. This development suggests that he has transcended physical form become a universal presence.

Source: Cine Serie

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