What I really love here is that Morgan Freeman's character is on the verge of saying to Lucy, "I don't know what you should do". And then he clearly thinks to himself, "This young woman has reached out in desperation to me for an answer. I can't turn her away." And he finds an answer for her.
Yeah, when he was put on the spot, with Lucy's question basically being "how does (my) life have meaning & purpose" he really rose to the moment.. Distilling what others have written huge treatises on, into a single sentence - that was a really good effort!
"I dont feel pain, fear, desire..... it's like all the things which make us human are fading away...", a very small but deep powerful statement to make us realise what precious things we have and what we would lose in search of good, better, or best.
Except those that do not wish to pursue the highest purpose but extract the highest financial value in life. Since our society is built on money and money is the currency that can be transformed into almost all things that one person cannot attain in a lifetime. Hence you get these self interest driven, power, monetary motivate individuals that does not, will not and will actively hinder the passing/sharing of knowledge to the detriment of everyone just to satisfy their own limitless/endless forms/insatiable desires.
The problem with 'highest purpose' is that it wasn't purposeful. It just happened by sheer coincidence of interactions creating a more-or-less self-propagating, containing and preserving thing. It's just things running into each other until something more complex comes out of the event. And behaviors are just more complexity. They helped those things to survive and propagate further. The only difference now is we have more advanced (but not sufficiently so) cognition and an environment that's changing too fast. I mean if we're gonna be real, we're just yet another species that's become too successful. But contrary to our predecessors who failed at food source sustainability, we're the first to wield as much power to cause change as we do, and to think and talk about it to the degree that we have. We're in a delicate balance of an increased power, overpopulation, and self-sabotage, which ever so slightly favors survival and propagation for several generations. But it's tenuous because, like our predecessors, we lack sufficient self-awareness and self-control to prevent trapping ourselves in a death-spiral. We're still too much the 'brainless' emotionally-directed animals, performing the outcome of whatever natural selection coincided with. If we out of the bullshit we're in, we're going to need some more rolls of Darwinian dice and hope, for our descendants' sake, that it's neither a total game-over outcome or another eventual forced re-roll. Read 'A Canticle For Leibowitz' for an uneasy laugh.
@@FiltyIncognito There is a truth to the saying in the movie that passing on knowledge is the higher purpose for survival as that is what has happened in a phenomena we call "insticts" aiding survival. Only man has gained a conciousness to record, share and actively pass via education what was previously just intrinsically gained. Hence mans accelerated exponential improvement in just the last couple of centuries vs millenia's before that.
This scene saved the movie for me. I was almost tearing my hair out waiting for SOMEONE to say, "don't waste this knowledge, pass it on somehow!" and I thought they were going to completely miss the point of their own movie, but they pulled through in the end.
Agreed, but think back to the character Lucy was before ingesting the compound and it’s easy to understand why she was confused and wondering what she should do.
@@SignalCorps1 But she retained enough of her old self to understand and question her purpose. She was rapidly gaining all this knowledge and losing her humanity, but before ingesting she was a Philosophy Student, living with her best friend overseas. She understood enough of the importance of why before she was totally lost. Imagine what somebody else in her situation would have done.
As another commenter mentioned before me, it is a rare movie when the character Morgan Freeman isn't the smartest person in the room. Lucy fascinated me. I had a stroke a few years back and as I recovered I became aware I was using different parts of my brain. Became more intuitive
She's so humble: "I can control electromagnetic waves. Not all of them, just the most basic...television, telephone, radio..." and then she turns the light off and on, too.
Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson. Two incredibly different actors. But the two of them in one movie, in one scene, is a wonderful experience. I love this movie for many reasons, but that the both of them are in it is definitely one of them.
one of them is a highly attractive, amazing, charismatic person that could recite absolute crap and make you fall in love with it. the other is Scarlet who makes on of two faces.
Scarlett and Morgan Freeman are both great actors! Rest assured that any movie that has even one of them in it is going to be good! Both in one movie at the same time is great!
@@TheUnvarnishedTruth- I'm glad you agree. If you read the other comments, apparently others are not as impressed with her. I like her style and I won't apologize for that. Her good looks are just icing on the cake for me.
Morgan Freeman hits all the right notes in this scene. A lesser actor wouldn't have made the transition from dismissive to curious to astonished without overacting and ruining it.
"I dont feel pain, fear, desire..... it's like all the things which make us human are fading away..." i don't know why, but this makes me feel sad, it must be awful lonely to feel so distant
She seems to have a tiny bit of humanity left in her at the time. She was almost at the verge of tears after the professor happily decide to help her. 😭
@@shaunkollamparampil1710 but the laptop and other devices around him that she can control do. It's clear he doesn't need to hold the phone up for her to hear him. To be fair though, she'll be more clearly able to hear him with a close mic, so it's probably best he kept it up. I'm guessing he didn't think through all this, and like the OP said was just baffled.
@@TigDegner The phone was transmitting the sound of his voice. None of those devices in the room had a microphone (well maybe the smart TV and the Laptop, but probably not as clear of an audio signal). They most likely didn't have a camera either, so Lucy couldn't see him. How I interpret this scene is that she could just "Feel" everything tied to the electrical grid in his home. She could pinpoint his location by knowing where the phone was and then turning on all of the devices around that point.
@@IsAStormComing maybe that's the point: at this moment in Lucy's development, connecting to all of these devices was just like any of us connecting to our eyes or ears: we can't even consciously envision those pathways and "simply" use whatever is available. In truth it's incredibly complex, but Lucy's abilities make it as simple as hearing and seeing.
Morgan Freeman always does such a brilliant job of, well, acting like he's not "acting". Like Denzel Washington, Morgan has such a natural way about him.
"The book of Numbers is of pivotal importance for all Old Testament study because it covers the formative period of Israel's communal and religious life," notes Harrison in the introduction. "During this period, Israel's religious life was shaped by the promulgation of many laws from God that would establish the nature of her worship and prepare her for a settled community life beyond the confines of the wilderness."
@@michelangelo8523 look it up. Several TH-cam videos on this. Denzel actually says he does it and Spike Lee spoke about it in front of him too about channeling.
@@fyrewolf7805 In the following link, she didn’t need to go through all the effort when she can control matter. She also said herself that here emotions were all but gone, so just eliminate the obstacles and have the drugs come to her. th-cam.com/video/zF23cTJ5AWs/w-d-xo.html
beautiful moment in a cool movie. That and the other scene where she is speaking to her mom is pure dope. This movie and Under The Skin were made just for Scarlett.
I've only seen clips of this movie, but what I find interesting here is the interaction between the two of them. Lucy is probably thinking at a speed that Freeman's character couldn't even comprehend, yet she sits and waits calmly and patiently for him to formulate his thoughts and try to express himself. It seems she has a respect for him, even though she's so much further advanced than he or any other human.
Thx, good point, and though technically inaccurate, it does help give the audience a way to look at such an abstract concept like virtually unlimited intelligence... not an easy idea to 'illustrate' to begin with.
More like, Luc Besson heard the old (incorrect) saying and didn't question it, wrote a movie, and then came up with "metaphor" when people pointed out how wrong it is.
@@eksine Like good science fiction it's less important to know exactly how the thing happens but much more important to know what happens and how it affects people. Instead of this particular method of increasing intelligence, what happens if something like instant access to all the knowledge and the means to process it all at once is available to a person. Elon Musks idea of direct communication to and from brain cells combined with computers running AI, or some other method, isn't as important as knowing what that would give people who had access to it. Look at where you're reading this, and look at the impact on people and society this tool and access to the information has had. Idealists would point out how much it could accelerate human advancement, but science fiction like "The Machine Stops", written last century, tells of the possible human loss such a system could inflict. That story was written based on a postulated technology that never came about like the author wrote, but it nevertheless was accurate in describing a society much like ours might become if our Internet and computing technology advances.
Highly underrated movie. Leave the plot and science as we know it aside. Take it as it is. Also if you're open-minded, it will be more enjoyable. It's a movie, not a documentary. If you're more of a "inspired by true events" type, then watch something else.
Forget "not a documentary," the crap this movie talks about is pure fantasy. Enjoy it all you want, but it's still garbage. Even Star Wars was more rational than this.
Underrated? Hardly, I've never met anyone who didn't like it, or "think" a lot about it. By the way, where is this mysterious "rating system" I see mentioned daily? Wahi' Valleys
I'm a science student and I loved this movie. The soundtracks, the acting, it's all perfect. Yeah sure the science is wrong, but come on, how many action movies ever get the science of anything right?
I went in not expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. A solid movie on an intriguing subject. Obviously it’s not based on any proven information because the brains full potential is unknown.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20survey%20from,brain%20is%20almost%20always%20active. According to a survey from 2013, around 65 percent of Americans believe that we only use 10 percent of our brain. But this is just a myth, according to an interview with neurologist Barry Gordon in Scientific American. He explained that the majority of the brain is almost always active.Feb 27, 2018. You may find this worth reading about the brains potential. What do you think? bigthink.com/philip-perry/scientists-are-attempting-to-unlock-the-secret-potential-of-the-human-brain
The human brain, like the brain of every single animal on the planet is used at 100%. Anything less would be a waste of potential that would eventually lead to the failure of that creature due to massively wasted resources. and a Darwin Award! 😉 Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply thick & uneducated.
The best part of movies like this, and this one in particular, is that in the reality of infinity, everything that happens in this movie is actually happening, in some alternate universe. Thought and imagination and reality are all one and the same. Everything that can be imagined exists somewhere. When all that remains is thought, everything is possible. Or, as has been attributed to me in the past... It's only when you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything.
"everything that can be imagined exists somewhere" - and why should that be true? Also imagined by who and when? How is consciousness/creativity connected to what is (in alternate realities)? How do imagined opposites work together?
@@LetBBB6345789 well it's just a theory. I remember reading up somewhere about a theory where there might be an infinite amount of universe. Each has its own kind of physics or "laws". By that theory it also means that there are infinite possibility of "something" happening somewhere.
@@chairvergil4552 The universe would have to have some sort of laws that govern how it works and you'd have to be able to have a set of laws that allow whatever your 'something' is to actually be consistent with the laws within that universe. That may not be possible, in which case your 'something' scenario can't occur even with an infinite number of tries. (Imagine the infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters, some of them will presumably type out the complete works of Shakespeare, but none of them will recreate the Mona Lisa!)
Ms. scarlet delivers a complex master class in acting authentic emotional developments as this amazing narrative reveals itself to the audience! This film was for me an astonishing and brilliant speculation about human potentials and our species history!
I can see what she says is true. The more knowledge you get, the more you outgrow primitive emotions. In fact, emotions are what keeps us from growing to our full potential. We get worried, or scared, or hurt by events or people, and it stops us from doing what we need to do to advance and learn. Greed makes us stay at a lower technological level instead of harnessing everything we can to advance ourselves. If you cannot make money from it, it does not get done, even if it helps everyone on the planet. People have such potential if they would just grow up.
"The more knowledge you get, the more you outgrow primitive emotions." I tend to agree with everything you just said. In addition, I have learned that as I age, now 75, that I care less and less about what other people think of me either socially or intellectually. And since our emotions are simply a cognitive reaction to societal judgment, then it follows that as we age, we become less emotional and more pragmatic. That is assuming that I am typical of most men of my age progression. I feel confident that I am, but that is obviously a flawed self-assessment.
@@jb-xc4oh "Its only a figment of some screen writers imagination" Your observation of the obvious is impressive. However, we are engaging in a few fanciful imaginings here for the sake of conversation. And the screen writer's fertile imagination is what started it all.
@@jb-xc4oh And they were not directed at you, now were they? Doesn't it feel a little awkward inserting yourself into a conversation where you were not invited? Or is it just a burning need for social recognition that drives you to do that?
Emotional in what sense? Morgan Freeman is stuck with a worthless 2-bit actress that *can't* emote and struggles to deliver lines in anything but deadpan. Knowledgeable in what regard? Every "scientific" premise in the movie is complete bullshit. There's no valuable wisdom on display either, in fact, most scenes demonstrate an irritatingly high degree of stupidity. It's a pretty terrible movie... With respect to both its Narrative and Technical detail. Science Fiction is good when you can suspend disbelief in favor of something that's somewhat believable. This movie's ENTIRE backbone is a myth that even 12 year old children know to be ridiculous. And... that's literally ALL it has.
@@adreiiaii510 I'm not saying the movie is a masterpiece or anything, but she literally says her emotions are dying in the scene. Of course she'd sound UNEMOTIONAL.
@Dj For life emotions can be a burden and debilitating for many of us. I also think intelligence is always a good thing, many of us could do with more of that.
I need a movie with all of these people with powers in them, that weren't considered as having "powers" Lucy, Powder, Age of Adeline, The One. All of them in one big movie.
The difference between knowledge and wisdom. An important concept today's generations should heed. Access to nearly our entire 'stock' of knowledge at the click of a button, tools now approaching true Artificial Intelligence levels of functionality, but it simply begs the question 'what do I do with this?'
Reminds me of the House, MD episode where the genius patient intentionally makes himself dumb - to be happy. If Lucy is finding that using more of her brain makes her less human, maybe, like the guy in House, there was a time when our species was using more of the brain, but decided to dumb down - to be happy.
It makes no sense that human feelings would fade away with higher brain function. Those who were the most brilliant, and yet socially dysfunctional, were only a few exceptions to the crowd of truly brilliant people.
This whole movie is about what makes us human. The film is summed up completely in the moment where Lucy reaches out to Lucy. It's not about the science at all. The science is a plot device.
@@Wednesdaywoe1975 What makes us human is our Creator that the plot ignored, and even denied. It presents an alternative that appeals to the uncritical mind bereft of independent thinking.
@@musicinspire1745 you are projecting. And claiming that what makes us human is our "creator" misses the question, since the "creator" supposedly created a lot of things that are not human.
She can control other people's bodies, stick weapons to a ceiling, create "forcefields", control many forms of energy. I'd say if she gave you a jump, not only would it be the most thoroughly ball emptying orgasm, but you would feel it all over your body and all through your brain while at the same time she could make you experience that as often & for as long as suited her. In short, it would be transformative. You'd be left as a dribbling idiot in a vegetative state.
Fun fact: you ARE using 100% of your brain, just not at the same time. It would be like using 100% of your muscles at the same time. Basically an epileptic seizure..
True, but when you consider the implications such a theory could have, no matter how far fetched, the possibilities are literally endless, aren't they? We have not yet discovered the extent of human evolution, or even figured out where or what we will become next; we only know what we have become from the past. Evolution in mankind has been ins stages, as science clearly lays out and each stage is influenced by certain factors that are almost always connected to massively global changes, such as environmental impacts. The concept of using 100% of our brain ALL the time and not be rendered into a bag of brain matter smoothie, is tantalizing.... studies of the human brain have scratched the surfaces of what appears to be hidden characteristics, "powers" if you will, that the brain has, which we have not yet discovered, other than mild and faint hints of it. That's why this movie makes so much sense; because it doesn't show anything that is ridiculously impossible; instead, it showcases varying stages of evolution as mankind has evolved, with increasing AWARENESS of existing powers previously undiscovered. Thoroughly enjoyed this....
La película vale la pena solo por la actuación de ella y por la de MF, sobre todo en esta escena, donde se ve el enorme actor que es en tan solo unos minutos de dialogo inteligente, dándole su impronta al personaje del profesor.
What I really love here is that Morgan Freeman's character is on the verge of saying to Lucy, "I don't know what you should do". And then he clearly thinks to himself, "This young woman has reached out in desperation to me for an answer. I can't turn her away." And he finds an answer for her.
Yeah, when he was put on the spot, with Lucy's question basically being "how does (my) life have meaning & purpose" he really rose to the moment.. Distilling what others have written huge treatises on, into a single sentence - that was a really good effort!
Love that interpretation
Its a damn good answer and is a great way to look at our species.
He mentions "Emily"--he has a daughter her age.
I wonder whose choice it was to recite the lines that way. The lines alone on paper would have implied a more certain response.
Ahhh.. yes... Morgan Freeman... he gets a new freckle every time he creates an amazing character in a movie.
WHAT?
@@adibafiq6945 South Park reference
I know right , when he co star in Unforgiven he had 13 now he has 22...weird .
Shouldn’t his entire face be a black dot then?
So did he lose one for this movie?
"I dont feel pain, fear, desire..... it's like all the things which make us human are fading away...", a very small but deep powerful statement to make us realise what precious things we have and what we would lose in search of good, better, or best.
Life has been twisted to think it's body mind and soul in reality it's soul mind and then the body humans lack knowledge because of meaningless desire
I would give it away any day: Emotions are blocking me.
Indeed
That’s an opinion.
Exactly opposite. Would you prefer low human emotions before wisdom??
3:26 "This whole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned, and there is no higher purpose." An awesome quote!
Except those that do not wish to pursue the highest purpose but extract the highest financial value in life. Since our society is built on money and money is the currency that can be transformed into almost all things that one person cannot attain in a lifetime. Hence you get these self interest driven, power, monetary motivate individuals that does not, will not and will actively hinder the passing/sharing of knowledge to the detriment of everyone just to satisfy their own limitless/endless forms/insatiable desires.
The problem with 'highest purpose' is that it wasn't purposeful. It just happened by sheer coincidence of interactions creating a more-or-less self-propagating, containing and preserving thing. It's just things running into each other until something more complex comes out of the event.
And behaviors are just more complexity. They helped those things to survive and propagate further.
The only difference now is we have more advanced (but not sufficiently so) cognition and an environment that's changing too fast.
I mean if we're gonna be real, we're just yet another species that's become too successful. But contrary to our predecessors who failed at food source sustainability, we're the first to wield as much power to cause change as we do, and to think and talk about it to the degree that we have.
We're in a delicate balance of an increased power, overpopulation, and self-sabotage, which ever so slightly favors survival and propagation for several generations. But it's tenuous because, like our predecessors, we lack sufficient self-awareness and self-control to prevent trapping ourselves in a death-spiral.
We're still too much the 'brainless' emotionally-directed animals, performing the outcome of whatever natural selection coincided with.
If we out of the bullshit we're in, we're going to need some more rolls of Darwinian dice and hope, for our descendants' sake, that it's neither a total game-over outcome or another eventual forced re-roll.
Read 'A Canticle For Leibowitz' for an uneasy laugh.
@@FiltyIncognito There is a truth to the saying in the movie that passing on knowledge is the higher purpose for survival as that is what has happened in a phenomena we call "insticts" aiding survival.
Only man has gained a conciousness to record, share and actively pass via education what was previously just intrinsically gained. Hence mans accelerated exponential improvement in just the last couple of centuries vs millenia's before that.
@@crxdelsolsir you’re describing the good old US of A, right? 😂
Passing on the knowledge of what was learned is important.
But learning new knowledge which was never known before is a higher calling.
Mr. Morgan Freeman, a national treasure, and one of the finest performers ever.
This scene saved the movie for me. I was almost tearing my hair out waiting for SOMEONE to say, "don't waste this knowledge, pass it on somehow!" and I thought they were going to completely miss the point of their own movie, but they pulled through in the end.
Agreed, but think back to the character Lucy was before ingesting the compound and it’s easy to understand why she was confused and wondering what she should do.
@@SignalCorps1 But she retained enough of her old self to understand and question her purpose. She was rapidly gaining all this knowledge and losing her humanity, but before ingesting she was a Philosophy Student, living with her best friend overseas. She understood enough of the importance of why before she was totally lost. Imagine what somebody else in her situation would have done.
At the end she becomes a usb stick - highest evolution stage
Don't take it wrong.
Probably the full version of Wikipedia.
XD
Now it should be SSD M.2 NVMe gen 4
she didn’t become a usb lol she gave it to them so that they could understand everything she knew
😝
"Pass it on., just like any simple cell going through time." That is what life is and has always been...it never stops. Great line...
As another commenter mentioned before me, it is a rare movie when the character Morgan Freeman isn't the smartest person in the room. Lucy fascinated me. I had a stroke a few years back and as I recovered I became aware I was using different parts of my brain. Became more intuitive
me too
Same I too had a stroke last year but I got paralysis
I had a mini stroke 18 months ago, whilst my motor functions are still affected, I find I feel/see things very slightly differently.
I'm sorry guys. I laughed when you mentioned having a stroke and with paralysis. I find it quite amusing
@@sailormoontv7383 you need to explain your comment, are you trolling stroke sufferers?
I love how she blew his mind and then he returned the favor. Great movie
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She's so humble: "I can control electromagnetic waves. Not all of them, just the most basic...television, telephone, radio..." and then she turns the light off and on, too.
2 hours
Is possible, past on, simple same, time.
Had a remote control for years,,
Yeah, and she does it from thousands of miles away.
@paul barnett - The Ravel resonance is even simpler but you won't believe me because you've fallen for the FBI propaganda.
Morgan was the best choice for this role
The calmest, chilled and thought out individual on earth
Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson. Two incredibly different actors. But the two of them in one movie, in one scene, is a wonderful experience. I love this movie for many reasons, but that the both of them are in it is definitely one of them.
one of them is a highly attractive, amazing, charismatic person that could recite absolute crap and make you fall in love with it.
the other is Scarlet who makes on of two faces.
@@AzguardMike Whatever you say, Mike.
One of them a freckled, old black man- the other, Morgan Freeman
Scarlett and Morgan Freeman are both great actors! Rest assured that any movie that has even one of them in it is going to be good! Both in one movie at the same time is great!
@@TheUnvarnishedTruth- I'm glad you agree. If you read the other comments, apparently others are not as impressed with her. I like her style and I won't apologize for that. Her good looks are just icing on the cake for me.
Freeman knocked that role right out of the park. He's amazing.
Morgan Freeman hits all the right notes in this scene. A lesser actor wouldn't have made the transition from dismissive to curious to astonished without overacting and ruining it.
And they transition when he realizes that she was just a lost soul looking for direction and purpose. Brilliantly played by Morgan Freeman
He captures nuance and does it perfectly.
Imagine for just a moment the awe inspiring power of knowing that scarjo would be at your door in 12 hours.
The unsurpassed mental euphoria would be overwhelming!
I might need to do some sit ups. little flabby ya know.
(Imagine the sound of a spring) BOING!
I would have to invent a reason for my wife to go out.
@@michaelgould3433 How about "Hey honey. Scarlet Johansen is on her way here: Get lost for a while!"
I am a simple man. I see Morgan Freeman...I CLICK.
Lamo 😂
@@Harsha-dy9yr almo?
@@OsamaBinLooney omal
@@OsamaBinLooney what is alom??
agreed. MG. [click]
"I dont feel pain, fear, desire..... it's like all the things which make us human are fading away..." i don't know why, but this makes me feel sad, it must be awful lonely to feel so distant
It's what you desire when you lack and what you wish you never had once you acquire.
She doesn't feel lonely also
One of the reasons why it's probable that God created the Universe and Life itself just so he/she could walk among them.
Once you know how the trick works, it's done. The magic is over.
She seems to have a tiny bit of humanity left in her at the time. She was almost at the verge of tears after the professor happily decide to help her. 😭
HILFE
I love how he's so baffled that he forgets to keep down the receiver.
You do realise that tv has no microphone right
@@shaunkollamparampil1710 but the laptop and other devices around him that she can control do. It's clear he doesn't need to hold the phone up for her to hear him.
To be fair though, she'll be more clearly able to hear him with a close mic, so it's probably best he kept it up.
I'm guessing he didn't think through all this, and like the OP said was just baffled.
And her voice wouldn't match in different medium.
@@TigDegner The phone was transmitting the sound of his voice. None of those devices in the room had a microphone (well maybe the smart TV and the Laptop, but probably not as clear of an audio signal). They most likely didn't have a camera either, so Lucy couldn't see him. How I interpret this scene is that she could just "Feel" everything tied to the electrical grid in his home. She could pinpoint his location by knowing where the phone was and then turning on all of the devices around that point.
@@IsAStormComing maybe that's the point: at this moment in Lucy's development, connecting to all of these devices was just like any of us connecting to our eyes or ears: we can't even consciously envision those pathways and "simply" use whatever is available. In truth it's incredibly complex, but Lucy's abilities make it as simple as hearing and seeing.
This movie is very underrated IMO.
"Can you control your own metabolism?"
"Yes and i start to control other people"
A progressive's dream.
@@mikerieck306 a conservative wet dream
@@happyfatherof5164 democrats are dumb as fck, that much is agreed upon.
@@hamdankhan319 And they're still smarter than Republicans.
@@mechanomics2649 no they aren't. Democrats try even harder than republicans to screw up the world financially
Morgan Freeman always does such a brilliant job of, well, acting like he's not "acting".
Like Denzel Washington, Morgan has such a natural way about him.
"The book of Numbers is of pivotal importance for all Old Testament study because it covers the formative period of Israel's communal and religious life," notes Harrison in the introduction. "During this period, Israel's religious life was shaped by the promulgation of many laws from God that would establish the nature of her worship and prepare her for a settled community life beyond the confines of the wilderness."
I hope not like Denzel Washington. Denzel channels demons to help him act.
@@jmrdrgz what?
@@michelangelo8523 look it up. Several TH-cam videos on this. Denzel actually says he does it and Spike Lee spoke about it in front of him too about channeling.
@@jmrdrgz ok i will have a look cause Denzel is like one of my favorite actors
"if you're asking me what to do..... get busy living or get busy dying..."
That's Goddamn right...
I say he is institutionalised
Out there, all she really needs is the yellow pages... But I guess they don't print those anymore
@@jamespaul2587 lmao
@@jamespaul2587 underrated
Imagine getting that phone call though, Morgan Freeman did a great job portraying the reaction of a scientist being told the secrets of life.
people don't think this story is very good but it is in fact true sci fi. I think it's great and I applaud the actors for making it that way
She literally mind hacked all his devices yet he still had the phone to his ear as if it made a difference.
He is too stunned to think about that.
He's only using 10% of his brain
stunned.
You are using more %of your brain
@@PhantomAyz
Everyone uses 100% of their brain
We only use about 10% of its capacity and that is what the movie is about
this movie is a classic ! Thanks to all who made it ,
I enjoyed it also, although it can be ruined if you put too much thought into the powers she displays.
Thank you very much I hope you enjoyed the movie
@@tedspeed3338 how
@@fyrewolf7805 In the following link, she didn’t need to go through all the effort when she can control matter. She also said herself that here emotions were all but gone, so just eliminate the obstacles and have the drugs come to her. th-cam.com/video/zF23cTJ5AWs/w-d-xo.html
A movie has to be 25 years in order to be a classic...
beautiful moment in a cool movie. That and the other scene where she is speaking to her mom is pure dope. This movie and Under The Skin were made just for Scarlett.
I’ve liked Mr. Freeman since I was a kid watching him as “Easy Reader” on the Electric Company.
That’s was a millennia ago.
Early ‘70s.
Those were the days!
"It's a little rudimentary, but you're on the right track" never fails to make me laugh.
The scientific basis of the movie may be crud. But it was entertaining and certainly have some decent elements and scenes. Plus, Morgan Freeman!
Every time Morgan Freeman gets another freckle, an angel gets it's wings.
Am I the only one that needs them to make more parts of this movie
I've only seen clips of this movie, but what I find interesting here is the interaction between the two of them. Lucy is probably thinking at a speed that Freeman's character couldn't even comprehend, yet she sits and waits calmly and patiently for him to formulate his thoughts and try to express himself. It seems she has a respect for him, even though she's so much further advanced than he or any other human.
In my opinion, it’s worth watching. It is in my DVD library.
Infinite knowledge.
Doesn’t know what to do with it.
Supreme. Being. With. Anxiety.
hahahhaa
supreme being? multipass?
She said no fear bo desire. She wouldn't have anxiety
You got to realize that she is a baby supreme being she is only like 12 to 20 hours old!
Are you trying to convince yourself that beings that have anxiety are also supreme?
Freeman... acting precision🔥🔥
Most amazing ability turning off the digital TV and having the image collapse like it was an analog TV with collapsing fields.
Luc Besson said in interviews that the % usage thing was just a metaphor and shouldn't be taken seriously.
Oops... looks like we’re a movie too late.
Thx, good point, and though technically inaccurate, it does help give the audience a way to look at such an abstract concept like virtually unlimited intelligence... not an easy idea to 'illustrate' to begin with.
More like, Luc Besson heard the old (incorrect) saying and didn't question it, wrote a movie, and then came up with "metaphor" when people pointed out how wrong it is.
the whole movie shouldn't be taken seriously, the science is laughable it makes me fart
@@eksine Like good science fiction it's less important to know exactly how the thing happens but much more important to know what happens and how it affects people. Instead of this particular method of increasing intelligence, what happens if something like instant access to all the knowledge and the means to process it all at once is available to a person. Elon Musks idea of direct communication to and from brain cells combined with computers running AI, or some other method, isn't as important as knowing what that would give people who had access to it. Look at where you're reading this, and look at the impact on people and society this tool and access to the information has had. Idealists would point out how much it could accelerate human advancement, but science fiction like "The Machine Stops", written last century, tells of the possible human loss such a system could inflict. That story was written based on a postulated technology that never came about like the author wrote, but it nevertheless was accurate in describing a society much like ours might become if our Internet and computing technology advances.
Just a personal opinion but I thought this was a highly underrated movie. Excellent performances and it leaves you with a lot of questions.
it's a plain case of 'the majority doesn't know the best for Us at anything' especially movies!!!!!
Its a fun movie but the premise is stupid
@@bobbyjonkey13 it's more work, but thinking for one's self is priceless
Highly underrated movie. Leave the plot and science as we know it aside. Take it as it is. Also if you're open-minded, it will be more enjoyable. It's a movie, not a documentary. If you're more of a "inspired by true events" type, then watch something else.
Highly overrated comment ~
@@theothertroll Your reply looks cool. But that's just it.
Forget "not a documentary," the crap this movie talks about is pure fantasy. Enjoy it all you want, but it's still garbage. Even Star Wars was more rational than this.
Underrated? Hardly, I've never met anyone who didn't like it, or "think" a lot about it. By the way, where is this mysterious "rating system" I see mentioned daily? Wahi' Valleys
I'm a science student and I loved this movie. The soundtracks, the acting, it's all perfect. Yeah sure the science is wrong, but come on, how many action movies ever get the science of anything right?
I went in not expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. A solid movie on an intriguing subject. Obviously it’s not based on any proven information because the brains full potential is unknown.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20survey%20from,brain%20is%20almost%20always%20active.
According to a survey from 2013, around 65 percent of Americans believe that we only use 10 percent of our brain. But this is just a myth, according to an interview with neurologist Barry Gordon in Scientific American. He explained that the majority of the brain is almost always active.Feb 27, 2018.
You may find this worth reading about the brains potential. What do you think?
bigthink.com/philip-perry/scientists-are-attempting-to-unlock-the-secret-potential-of-the-human-brain
It's bollocks, bullshit, etc, just an interesting sci-fi concept
That's because the humans we are now lack the capacity to use the 10% we were given.
@@JohnnyDoeDoeDoe nope it’s actually kinda true
The human brain, like the brain of every single animal on the planet is used at 100%. Anything less would be a waste of potential that would eventually lead to the failure of that creature due to massively wasted resources. and a Darwin Award! 😉 Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply thick & uneducated.
The best part of movies like this, and this one in particular, is that in the reality of infinity, everything that happens in this movie is actually happening, in some alternate universe.
Thought and imagination and reality are all one and the same. Everything that can be imagined exists somewhere. When all that remains is thought, everything is possible.
Or, as has been attributed to me in the past... It's only when you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything.
"everything that can be imagined exists somewhere" - and why should that be true? Also imagined by who and when? How is consciousness/creativity connected to what is (in alternate realities)? How do imagined opposites work together?
@@LetBBB6345789 well it's just a theory. I remember reading up somewhere about a theory where there might be an infinite amount of universe. Each has its own kind of physics or "laws". By that theory it also means that there are infinite possibility of "something" happening somewhere.
@@chairvergil4552 The universe would have to have some sort of laws that govern how it works and you'd have to be able to have a set of laws that allow whatever your 'something' is to actually be consistent with the laws within that universe. That may not be possible, in which case your 'something' scenario can't occur even with an infinite number of tries. (Imagine the infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters, some of them will presumably type out the complete works of Shakespeare, but none of them will recreate the Mona Lisa!)
I never thought it would be possible to seem apathetic and terrified at the same time, and yet Scarlett somehow pulls it off
I really enjoyed this movie. I wish they would do a sequel.
A copy of the original is not as good as the original
Freeman's reading is exquisite. He fades away the written and makes it feel improvised on the spot.
Red goes out the prison and then starts to teach biology
And throughout the process, becomes President of the United States (Deep Impact) and God (Bruce Almighty).
Morgan Freeman imo is the greatest actor of my time.
She is such a great Actress !!! No one could even touch this girl who plays Lucy! SHE DOES IT WITH TOTAL PERFECTION !
You mean Scarlet Johansson, the most famous actress in the world?
mit einer der besten und tiefsgründigsten Filme aller Zeiter!!!
I have always loved Morgan Freeman. Felt like he was the dad I never had. A real straight shooter.
Knowledge does not equal wisdom, Lucy.
And unbelievably yet, he still speaks to her through the phone....
Ms. scarlet delivers a complex master class in
acting authentic emotional developments as this amazing narrative reveals itself to the audience! This film was for me an astonishing and brilliant speculation about human potentials and our species history!
Love those heart-tugging strings played as a musical soundtrack to the poignant and profound
Morgan Freeman is one of the finest actors of all time.
The true reason why Morgan Freeman was speechless in this scene was because he had never met a God that wasn't him
Luc Besson is an underrated director for science fiction and this movie is better than any award but a cult pleasure.
Morgan Freeman remains eclectic in his work but this is Scarlet Johannson’s better performances.
Morgan freeman : who are you?
Lucy : I'm a god just like you
Morgan Freeman : Ohh..my me
😂 Looks like he just got competition.
I get it
Even though the story is based on a myth, I liked this movie overall, especially the end sequence showing the beginning of the universe in reverse.
One of the best movie I seen to think someone had this concept in the mind and made it to a movie just amazing
Speechless freeman
The fact that she says her humanity is fading and she doesn’t know what to do with it shows that she feels fear
Bit of a Catch 22 there
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
THIS MOVIE, is basically everything Neo after becoming the one should've been.
Morgan Freeman is one of the greatest actors!
I can see what she says is true. The more knowledge you get, the more you outgrow primitive emotions. In fact, emotions are what keeps us from growing to our full potential. We get worried, or scared, or hurt by events or people, and it stops us from doing what we need to do to advance and learn. Greed makes us stay at a lower technological level instead of harnessing everything we can to advance ourselves. If you cannot make money from it, it does not get done, even if it helps everyone on the planet. People have such potential if they would just grow up.
"The more knowledge you get, the more you outgrow primitive emotions."
I tend to agree with everything you just said. In addition, I have learned that as I age, now 75, that I care less and less about what other people think of me either socially or intellectually. And since our emotions are simply a cognitive reaction to societal judgment, then it follows that as we age, we become less emotional and more pragmatic. That is assuming that I am typical of most men of my age progression. I feel confident that I am, but that is obviously a flawed self-assessment.
Its only a figment of some screen writers imagination..........don't read more into it than that..!! LoL..
@@jb-xc4oh "Its only a figment of some screen writers imagination"
Your observation of the obvious is impressive. However, we are engaging in a few fanciful imaginings here for the sake of conversation. And the screen writer's fertile imagination is what started it all.
@@MrHorsepro Your own fanciful imaginings are also obvious but far from impressive or profound.
@@jb-xc4oh And they were not directed at you, now were they? Doesn't it feel a little awkward inserting yourself into a conversation where you were not invited? Or is it just a burning need for social recognition that drives you to do that?
Great movie, I always thought though that the last 15-20mins of the movie was "rushed".
Quarantine got me watching everything.
I love how normal people become cosmic beings lol😂
At all her power why she is never able to teleport from one place to another. If she can entire movie is easy.
She did..
Scarlett Johansson is one of my all time favorite female actors.
time for some top dramatic roles for her
I do not know how, what, and how to do if I can do that .. just right what he needs to do is just a beginning sign of everything we all have
Scarlett Johansson really nailed this role.
Very emotional and knowledgable scene loved it
Emotional in what sense? Morgan Freeman is stuck with a worthless 2-bit actress that *can't* emote and struggles to deliver lines in anything but deadpan.
Knowledgeable in what regard? Every "scientific" premise in the movie is complete bullshit. There's no valuable wisdom on display either, in fact, most scenes demonstrate an irritatingly high degree of stupidity.
It's a pretty terrible movie... With respect to both its Narrative and Technical detail.
Science Fiction is good when you can suspend disbelief in favor of something that's somewhat believable. This movie's ENTIRE backbone is a myth that even 12 year old children know to be ridiculous. And... that's literally ALL it has.
@@adreiiaii510 I'm not saying the movie is a masterpiece or anything, but she literally says her emotions are dying in the scene. Of course she'd sound UNEMOTIONAL.
This in my opinion is her most notable part, of her acting career
Even a developed being doesn't say goodbye after a call.
she is becoming less human as she develops and the simple niceties are lost, it's symbolism.
@Dj For life exactly, it was a theme through out the movie and portrayed very well by Scarlet.
@Dj For life emotions can be a burden and debilitating for many of us. I also think intelligence is always a good thing, many of us could do with more of that.
Everything is linked with emotion. She is always acting on emotion. She just has perfect control over it.
Her drive to get better and help humanity. Emotionally driven.
So glad we weren't alone. )
he never disappoints. wow.
Lucy: "I don't know what to do"
Morgan: "USB Stick?"
I need a movie with all of these people with powers in them, that weren't considered as having "powers" Lucy, Powder, Age of Adeline, The One. All of them in one big movie.
why?
@@gustavbrinkel5489 Just to make you mad? i dont know what answer you want. I think it would be cool.
@@doro626my brain is implodihh
The difference between knowledge and wisdom. An important concept today's generations should heed. Access to nearly our entire 'stock' of knowledge at the click of a button, tools now approaching true Artificial Intelligence levels of functionality, but it simply begs the question 'what do I do with this?'
This is still bloody epic!
If she can control her own metabolism, she should be able to slow the process of her evolution in order to prolong her life.
Terrible film with gaps in logic.
@@darkparker7500Life has gaps in logic, too. Well, mine does, anyway. 😎
Reminds me of the House, MD episode where the genius patient intentionally makes himself dumb - to be happy. If Lucy is finding that using more of her brain makes her less human, maybe, like the guy in House, there was a time when our species was using more of the brain, but decided to dumb down - to be happy.
"i don't feel pain, fear, desire" .... just like me but without the brain part
It makes no sense that human feelings would fade away with higher brain function. Those who were the most brilliant, and yet socially dysfunctional, were only a few exceptions to the crowd of truly brilliant people.
Cognitive functioning controls everything she transcended the body and added a new definition to what we call LIFE
This whole movie is about what makes us human. The film is summed up completely in the moment where Lucy reaches out to Lucy. It's not about the science at all. The science is a plot device.
@@Wednesdaywoe1975 What makes us human is our Creator that the plot ignored, and even denied. It presents an alternative that appeals to the uncritical mind bereft of independent thinking.
@@musicinspire1745 you are projecting. And claiming that what makes us human is our "creator" misses the question, since the "creator" supposedly created a lot of things that are not human.
@@scottmatheson3346 That's flawed reasoning, but I'm used to it from others.
I don't care how silly is the premise, it's an incredible movie.
I wonder if she would know how to give the ultimate..."job"
She can control other people's bodies, stick weapons to a ceiling, create "forcefields", control many forms of energy.
I'd say if she gave you a jump, not only would it be the most thoroughly ball emptying orgasm, but you would feel it all over your body and all through your brain while at the same time she could make you experience that as often & for as long as suited her. In short, it would be transformative. You'd be left as a dribbling idiot in a vegetative state.
@@capnskiddies Start having a seizure from the pure endorphins. It be like when you nut but she keep on...but its right from the start. LEL
Divided into two cells... Twins 🌎❤️🌎
Fun fact: you ARE using 100% of your brain, just not at the same time. It would be like using 100% of your muscles at the same time. Basically an epileptic seizure..
True, but when you consider the implications such a theory could have, no matter how far fetched, the possibilities are literally endless, aren't they? We have not yet discovered the extent of human evolution, or even figured out where or what we will become next; we only know what we have become from the past. Evolution in mankind has been ins stages, as science clearly lays out and each stage is influenced by certain factors that are almost always connected to massively global changes, such as environmental impacts.
The concept of using 100% of our brain ALL the time and not be rendered into a bag of brain matter smoothie, is tantalizing.... studies of the human brain have scratched the surfaces of what appears to be hidden characteristics, "powers" if you will, that the brain has, which we have not yet discovered, other than mild and faint hints of it.
That's why this movie makes so much sense; because it doesn't show anything that is ridiculously impossible; instead, it showcases varying stages of evolution as mankind has evolved, with increasing AWARENESS of existing powers previously undiscovered. Thoroughly enjoyed this....
I diagnose Sisil with Chunibyo
@@chilfang2422 I don't even know what that means..... 🤨
@@chilfang2422 LMAO
@@SisilKabir As far as I know, it's a way to call someone with childish delusions in japanese
ONE OF IF NOT THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES AROUND
I feel like he should work at the suicide hotline. Imagine if you wanted to die then you called and heard that wonderful voice 😆
The Professor is so discombobulated he doesn't realize he don't need the phone anymore once she appeared on TV!
We need a sequel!
well she turned into a usb stick
so USB
COMING THIS SUMMER
STARRING ROB SCHNEIDER IS A USB STICK
I love how even after she hacks all of his electronic devices he keeps talking to her thru the phone
she could have found a way for every human being to expand his/her capacity.
Or, all are the same one, and she did?
Excellent movie . One of the very best.
La película vale la pena solo por la actuación de ella y por la de MF, sobre todo en esta escena, donde se ve el enorme actor que es en tan solo unos minutos de dialogo inteligente, dándole su impronta al personaje del profesor.
I love this movie so much. It's one of my all time favorites. Brilliant on every level.