【電影簡介】

25歲的露西（斯嘉麗·約翰遜飾演）是美國公民，在臺灣臺北市生活和工作。她受到男友的欺騙，淪為運送毒品的“毒騾”，而這一切的幕后主使是韓國人張先生（崔岷植飾演），他是一名黑幫大佬和毒梟。一次，露西把裝有天價新式毒品CPH4的箱子交給張先生。露西目睹她的男友被殺害，之后她也遭監禁，CPH4被手術縫進了她的腹部。露西和其他三名毒騾一起要把毒品運到歐洲。

然而露西由于腹部被人踢傷，毒品包裝袋破碎滲入到她體內的器官和血液。不過，露西非但沒有死亡，反而發現自己的體能和智能都在藥物的作用下得到了飛速的提升，從而擁有了心靈感應、心靈遙感、心靈時空穿梭等不可思議的超能力，而且她能夠控制讓自己感覺不到疼痛。她成了一個不可不扣的女超人。

【音頻文本】

French director Luc Besson must have allowed his imagination to go wild when he wrote the story for sci-fiaction film “Lucy”, although the effect of such wildness is hard to determine.

Scarlett Johansson plays the titular girl named Lucy, who is forced by a brutal gang to become an involuntary drug mule. During a violent encounter with a gang member, the small package sewn to her abdomen is broken and the leaked content is absorbed by her body immediately. This new type of synthetic drug unlocks the previously untapped potential of Lucy’s brain, giving her godly abilities such as telepath, control of gravity and many others.

Ms. Johansson is very effective in her role. When taken by the callous gang, her trembling body and voice can totally convince us of her fears. And when the drug is being absorbed and processed, her gravity-defying movements herald a series of jaw-dropping developments. She grows colder and more impervious as she gains greater control of her cerebral power, but the actress is not to blame for a lack of expression, there simply is no need for emotions in the story.

As Lucy experiences all those changes in her body, the film also tries to explain the phenomena. A certainProfessor Norman played by Morgan Freeman introduces his theory at a symposium, his description matches the progress of Lucy’s transcendence and his image is intermittently evoked on screen to make sure the viewers are still following.

The belief that humans only use a small part of our brain capacity has been the subject of many science fiction literature and films, but it is nonetheless a mere fantasy. Luc Besson’s “Lucy” is based on such a fantasy and for the most part consists of the director’s imagination of what it means to activate humanbrains on a full scale. There are some references to the purpose of life, but the topic is not treated with enough commitment.

Anyway, before we arrive at the conclusion that “Lucy” is a childish story, let us at least entertain the idea that perhaps there is a hidden message behind the absence of logic. Days after watching the film, the title still reminds me of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. The Beatles wrote a song about LSD, why can’t Luc Besson make a film about the influence of drugs?

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