Hi everyone! Hope you're all having wonderful holidays and are as excited as I am to get back to work and the real life of waking up at 7am everyday.
As you all noticed, telling you about my life has maybe gone out of style here on MK. I sincerely got bored of doing that and I realised that I needed a new subject for MK. Obviously I will still tell you every now and then about my unlucky love life and how unfortunate I've been with the life choices I've made. But I have decided that I will bet on my interests from now on.
That being said, Mk will now do reviews of the books I've most recently finished, the most played songs on my spotify playlist as well as the ones hitting the UK, USA and Portugal charts, the latest fashion trends and pretty much every cultural fact that comes to my attention as being fundamental to today's society, I will make my opinion visible to you all.
The first topic on this review season of MK will be Lucy.
If you were an innocent child and an action film enthusiast as I was when you first watched the trailer for Lucy, you probably were dying in electrifying excitment to see the real thing.
So, my best friend Dave and I went on the journey of popping up at our local cinema to watch Lucy, starring the beautiful Scarlett Johansson and the God voice of Morgan Freeman.
When the film first started I instantly felt something was off about this film. The production didn't seem at its best at least nothing I would expect for a film produced by universal pictures. I can even say that that beginning which featured our pre-humans figures and animals in a very National Geographic Channel way, might have even lowered my expectations. However I had seen the trailer several times which ensured me that all the action that tended to pump me up was yet to come.
As the film progressed, it became more obvious that for a film like Lucy people are better off restraining themselves to simply watching the trailer at the comfort of their homes than paying for a ticket of a sincerely poorly executed film.
Not even the presence of the magnificient Morgan Freeman saved the confusing train course of this film from hitting rock bottom. It just got worse. More obvious, less interesting and more and more faulted.
I am a believer that if you want to criticise, you better be very specific about it and say how could have gone better. So I'll try to do a very constructive critique of Lucy now.
Let's start with the film concept. As you may have understood from the trailer (click below to watch if if you haven't yet), it is about the human brain and and the usage we make of such a powerful force that it is.
Several psychoogical and neurological theories have addressed this subject before, stating that despite the fact that all areas of the human brain are used (not at the same time, they are activated depending on the task at hand), humans are yet to use the full brain's potential. According to the same, only a small portion, about 10% of the brain potential it is used. Even creatures as dolphins (that we must agreee are freaking adorable) are apparently more developed than we are. It is believed that they use about 20% of their brains potential which makes them one of the smartest creatures in the planet with the most sophisticated communication system that has ever existed on earth that allows them to communicate miles away from each others.
So, as you can see, it is quite an interesting subject however it's not something new and neither is the approach the film made to the subject. A new approach based on recent research might've been refreshing but the one they applied has been in literature for ages. For me, that was perhaps the biggest flaw in this film production.
Another drawback perhaps was Scarlett performance. She is perhaps one of the sexiest and most beautiful women on earth. I would die to look like her. She's perfect and she also has one of those cheeky cute personalities. But my general opinion is that she is quite average as an actress. I never liked any particular film she's been at for the exception of Avengers in which she didn't have that many lines and she portrayed a superhero so that kind of made her look awesome regardless. She probably could do more drama and I am not saying this in a judgmental way. The drama she's done so far has been fairly good (I'm referring to the Prestige for instance - such an insightful film) and perhaps she should stuck to that. Thrillers and action films aren't really her thing. For me as a viewer and arts enthusiast, it feels weird to watching her. You can feel how unnatural it sounds from her mouth. Her moves are slightly awkward as if she was trying too hard to feel and just kind of overdid all of her lines. She could also give a try to comedy, like a real try. She's very beautiful and she probably would fit there just fine. However if her intentions are to be one of the greatest actresses of all times, I would say stuck with drama and work on it!
Concerning Morgan Freeman, I don't have much to say. He's been God so I don't think any film he does now, can top that up. Just kidding, he was as wonderful as always. But again, it was not the right film for him. His value as one of the greatest actors of all times has never and wasn't in question. and he just did as well as always. The film didn't make him any justice though.
So, yes, dear netheads, this is my review of Lucy. A film with a lot of potential that could've gone a lot better than it did.
Talk to you soon, I've got lots of life updates coming up and few other reviews,
Love always,
Tommy
Lucy Trailer 2014
PS. Some people have been criticising this film over the fact of the misconception about the 10% of usage of the brain when humans in fact use 100%. I am not addressing to that here because I don't think that was what was intended to be transmitted. It is not about the usage but the potential and how much more humans can do if they use it up to its potential. So, yeh, I just wanted to make that clear.
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