Saw Scarlett Johansson in LUCY last night.
She becomes superhuman after ingesting a new drug. It's very Lawnmower Manesque, especially the final scene were she texts everyone to say 'I am everywhere'.
In fact at the end Lucy is not human anymore having gone beyond the black liquid stage and toured the universe very quickly, a bit like Ray Milland in the Man with The X Ray Eyes.
Lucy's alienness fits well with Scarlett's other film Under the Skin. In fact Skin could well make a good sequel to Lucy if watched one after the other. I bet if both films were spliced together it would feel like a single flick. I could simply be hallucinating though having fallen under Johansson's spell.
Having googled Lucy it would appear it falls into a sub-genre of film and literature called 'transhumanism'.
Limitless is another film like this as is Robocop and the Matrix trilogy, all dealing with humans going beyond being human. It reminds me of superhuman and in that sense the term super-powers. Does this make all superheroes transhuman?
I particularly like the idea of humans achieving omnipotence. Or is it omniscience. Dunno but my Dad always said he was both! Ha ha. Linking this peak of power with the world's computers and phones is an increasingly frequent trope in films and stories. It's one I like a lot.
I enjoyed Lucy and look forward to catching Scarlett's latest transhuman movie Ghost in the Shell this week at the flicks.
Do you like films like these readers?
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