In Lucy, Scarlett Johansson plays a woman who gains extreme mental and physical powers via a special drug absorbed into her body. It became a giant box office success, grossing over $463 million on its $40 million dollar budget.
Director Luc Besson said, “I intended the first part of Lucy to be like my movie Leon: The Professional, the second part to be like Inception, and the third part to be like 2001: A Space Odyssey.”
The first words in Lucy are: Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?
The unique special effect action scenes will energize viewers, but there’s so much more to this movie, if we let its entirety work on us.
With its many striking images of the natural wonders of the earth and universe, the movie kind of hypnotizes us into the feeling that we are using our brains like Lucy does.
Listening to Morgan Freeman’s theoretical teachings, one gets us into an intellectual mood and an appreciation of what it took for us humans to get to this point in time.
Freeman asks the question, “Are human beings more concerned with having, than… being?
At the heart of the movie is an appreciation of our humanity. Action fans, waiting for the next shoot-out, may overlook the phone call that Lucy makes to her mother. Never has a ‘Don’t forget to call your mother’ statement been made so strongly. Lucy’s appreciation of her parents and the miracle that brought her to life is clearly stated.
Any success teacher will say: The first step to more money and more success is to have an appreciation of what we have now and use that as a platform to move forward.
Good advice is slipped into the story as Lucy tells her ailing roommate: “You need to make some lifestyle changes. Take this medication, work out, eat organic. You’ll be okay.”
And finally, just think of what we could do for our careers if we typed on two laptops, one hand on each, as fast as Lucy does. With that brain power on the internet, we could find the right person, place, product, book, or website that would take our careers to a new level.
Of course, we can’t use our laptops with Lucy’s speed, but we can enhance our performance to take efficient action for success.
A billion years to get to this life. What will we do with it in 2022, the Year of the Tiger?
Lucy, Wolf & Limitless inspired me to produce my own 'empowered hero' movie: Forbidden Power.
It won 39 international first-place awards. It's on Amazon Prime. Link below.
