It wasnt Mr Jang since he asked Lucy where Richard was

She is this incredible human who surpasses any human intellect. Yet most of the movie shows the car crashes and attitudes of men instead of the increasing intelligence she has. This movie is great it makes the hinges of what the smartest human could be. Instead, attaining the splendors of the human mind instead focuses on the use of guns and car crashes. I liked this movie. Just umm...

It's stupid to follow Lucy around to get the stolen drugs, they could instead post her miracles and raise more money if money was the issue...them make more of the drugs and also they could take the drugs themselves and cut out some of the fluring thing that happens.

If they get truely philosophical they can just tap the water supply and have everyone operate at 20% cerebral capacity.

Lucy was also quite dense for a smart person, why'd she keep the human form? Why didn't she explore the oceans, her intelligence is limited to a bit of space and only 25% of the earth.

This movie had so much potential...drug dealers could have taught her to kill the drug lords, the guy who requested the taj Mahal and the guy who requested the Kremlin could have told her to kill the architect. If she wanted to be the only one .

If her goal was to pass her knowledge on then she ought to make more of the drug and give it to everyone or send everyone the ingredients and instructions on how to cook it if consent kept her from doping the water.

And why TF did she only watch New York and America.... evolution was happening all over the world but anyway that's my take on the movie

This movie was literally insane. I can't wrap my head around the ending of the film nor the entirety of it yet. The ending line was what confused me the most: "Life started a billion years ago, and now you know what to do with it." At first, my reaction was "what?" and even now I'm still trying to understand what it means. But I think it ties back to the theory brought up earlier in the movie about how time itself is unit we have given to scale the unknown to a comprehensible size. Maybe by measuring time we restrict ourselves from being able to reach 100% brain capacity ? But time itself gives us existence, so if there was no such concept as time we would simply be a passing existence or evolving state? Maybe time itself therefore is giving meaning to our life. By having a finite lifespan, human beings being destined to die, this is what makes us uniquely human, and ultimately gives meaning to life.

From what I have understood, at the end Lucy reaches 100% cerebral or brain capacity, which is basically a God state—a energy or force that is everywhere, This connects to one of the common characteristics attributed to God, that is omnipotence and omniscience. Just like God, Lucy is all-knowing, everywhere, and undying. It is supposedly a myth that we use only 10% of our brain capacities, but more accurately put we use only 10% of our brain's energy resources. This is because this is enough for our daily activities. However, if we were to access greater than lets say 30% and increasingly more closer to 100%, then we would be overloaded with sensory information to even process it. This is evident in how we see Lucy evolving throughout the film as she is able to feel the air, space, the blood running through her bones, her bones cracking, essentially all the cells in the environment around her and doesn't know what to do with it all. Of course this is all based on neuroscientific theory, and it is quite fascinating.

Furthermore, as Lucy gets closer and closer to 100% brain capacity, she acquires more and more knowledge about everything and everyone. To me, it almost felt like she was getting closer to attaining Enlightenment because she gradually develops a deeper and wider awareness and consciousness of all processes happening outside her and also within her. At the end when she reaches 100% capacity, she essentially becomes all-knowing of all truths of our past, present and future just like Buddha did when he reached enlightenment. There was a line by Morgan Freeman about how a possible reason why we are able to reach 100% brain capacity is because we are too concerned with having than being. This is really similar to Buddha's teachings as it seems to convey the fact that perhaps our attachments prevent us from reaching our fullest potential and possibly becoming like God?

However, at the same time, even if we are able to do this in the future, this would mean we are no longer human. Lucy gradually loses and at the end has lost everything that makes her human—her emotions and feelings of desire, fear, greed, selfishness, compassion, passion, pride or any attachments to anything. Buddha has said that attachments are the root of all suffering, but I think one of the other messages of this film is that although this is true, the special thing about being human and having attachments/emotions is that we get to experience life, and this is ultimately what makes life meaningful, the experience of life meaningful. So going back to the ending line, it could be a message to viewers that we should just simply live and experience life as it is.

Morgan Freeman's dialogue about how Lucy should just pass on the knowledge just like a cell was also intriguing and baffling at the same time initially. What did he mean by just like a cell? He could possibly be referring to how each cell in the human body transfers or passes information to each other, or at least this is what neurons do at lightning quick speed to the brain. So this probably is a metaphor or simile for how humans have passed on knowledge and wisdom over the many generations through books and word of mouth.

The movie also explores the quantum physics realm, specifically the theory of multiple universes, and there is a stunning visual representation of this, as well as for the Big Bang. I am still not exactly sure what was happening in it but I could see many tubes, which after lots of thought could be time itself, which is theorized to be the the 4th dimension our reality. So my theory is that we, human beings are merely a evolving consciousness or state that is passing through. There are many tubes, so many parallel universes and multiple beginnings of time. As for the jellyfish, I am so lost...what are they supposed to represent ? And then the merging from multiple to one cell, which is supposedly Lucy who sparks the Big Bang? Therefore, she is God but how?

I still have many unanswered questions, but overall I thought Scarlet Johanssons's acting was just amazing. I was captivated by her acting for every single second of the film, dragged into her reality. Morgan Freeman just fit perfectly for his role. I have read a lot of criticism towards this film because it is based on science fiction, but I think it really pushes the boundaries of what is usually acceptable in this realm, and forces us to use our imagination and think outside our comfort zone. So, if I had to describe Lucy, it would be riveting, thought-provoking and mind-blowing at least for me.

I will avoid the long-drawn out speeches given by others on this topic. As a normal person, Lucy lives life day to day, she ends up screwed over by her boyfriend and is then used as a drug mule. The McGuffin drug that she has in her causes her to become hyper-intelligent, giving her supernatural abilities. Her goals shift from survival and living to passing on knowledge. Keep in mind I haven't watched the movie in years so give me a bit of slack. She uses the scientists and the rest of the drugs to reach full brain capacity and ascend physical existence.

There are many states to her motives. She goes from normal ideas, normal feelings, normal everything towards very different goals. After her first brain shift she starts planning ahead and acting far into the future. She does things out of function such as the kind of funny scene where she shoots some gangster/yakuza or something and begins eating their food. The sustenance was her goal, the elimination of enemies was her goal. Escaping Taiwan was her goal. Every act after her first shift was a logical goal towards a bigger plan that had many steps following. There are some lapses, when she's on the plane she decides to drink some alcohol and it causes her to begin disintegrating. This almost killed her and it would not have happened if she were smarter, and that's what happens next. She must consume more of the drug to survive.

I wanted to explore how her intelligence affected her goals. How, in the real world, if you suddenly became 10 times smarter, what would change with you. Almost all of the elements in Lucy were very crazy and impossible, but the question still stands. It's likely that Lucy herself had no real goals in life up until her becoming super smart. It seemed that the movie claimed that everyone who was in Lucy's circumstance would end up doing the same thing, spreading on knowledge. That sort of explores the paperclip machine. It doesn't matter how smart it is, the machine will always make paperclips. Lucy however, did experience a change in goals.

The question left to ask is this. If 10 random people suddenly gained intelligence (not the powers) equal to Lucy at some stage (other than the one where she escaped existence), what would they do?

Im lucy. Telekinetic, infinite etc. Also AI hand in hand with matter or objects being of brain pattern.

It’s been two years and I can’t imagine a movie being in production that whole time. Is Lucy 2 really not happening? Or is it just on hold for now (or forever)?

The professor’s lecture is the most inspiring fringe-pseudo-science that my high-ass brain has ever contemplated. Anyone have a link to a video of just the compilation of Morgan Freeman’s character’s lecture?

The bad guys spend all this time trying to get the drugs and lose a lot of men and go through a lot of trouble but why don't they just manufacture more? I don't remember if this was addressed in the movie.