I AM EVERYWHERE
'Lucy' - Luc Besson
Cycling around Madrid just over a week ago, the poster for this film showed up almost everywhere I went. 'I should go see that film,' I thought to myself, 'It looks like a good one.'
Scarlett Johansson's face and eyes popped out at me at almost every turn I made.
I guessed the film may have been about vampires, or zombies, from her inhumanly sharp, piercing eyes that stared out at me, but as I got around to reading about it on returning home last weekend, I found myself to be wrong.
I went to see the film yesterday. The story is based around the notion that we humans only use are mere 10% of our brains capacity, and a young woman named Lucy (Johansson) soon comes to learn, by a dark accident, what happens to us when we are able to use more of our brains functioning abilities. Starting with 15% and climactically leading up to 100%.
I don't want to give much more of the film away, as I went to go see the film not knowing much about it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But here, I will share my thoughts, and so if you haven't seen the film yet, and you would like to, then please feel free to stop reading now.
The film woke me up. It made me question things and it made me think.
It made me once again take a different outlook on life as it is now, in 2014..and I found myself feeling lucky to be alive in these times of change and growth.
It put forth into my consciousness thoughts and feelings about life and why we are here, thoughts and feelings I find myself constantly thinking about, but not speaking about, and, more often that not, followed by waves of guilt and anxiety.
This film pulled at and reassured a very deep and ancient core within me, (a feeling that I have felt since I was a young child), that I am here for a reason.
WE ARE ALL HERE FOR A REASON.
It inspired a passion within me to once again ignite, and to once again catch fire.
It made me eager to get home and play my music; to practise and to practise and to practise.
I felt motivated to look after myself. To spend more time in nature and less time on the computer.
To excercise and to eat well (this, I think, more coming from my recent trip away than the actual film, but still igniting these feelings.)
Going to the cinema yesterday, after being away for 4 weeks living in a van, with no access to a phone, computers or any form of technology, has made me realise that I only need to partake in these types of things every once in a while to fully appreciate them.
As the film started to play on the big screen and I sat comfortably in my seat munching away slowly on squares of dark chocolate, I felt mesmerised. It was as if I'd never been to the cinema before and this was my first time. It was great.
I was gripped to the film from start to finish, it wasn't too long and it held and shared some deep and important messages for me. Most based on facts, and some not.
The films assumption that we only use 10% of our brains capacity, I think, is aimed at how passive and asleep we as humans have now become at being able to discover our true potential(s).
''We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.''
Of course, we do use more of our brains than 10%..''we use virtually every part of the brain, and that (most of) the brain is active almost all the time.'' *
''…out of all the brains cells, only 10% are neurones, the other 90% are glial cells, which encapsulate and support neurones, but whose function remains largely unknown.
Ultimately, it's not that we use 10% of our brains, merely that we only understand about 10% of how it functions.''**
The film covers issues around time, technology and being. Around humans, nature, evolution and our possible potential as a society to change and to grow.
Morgan Freeman's charchter in this film (Professor Norman), questions what would happen if human beings were able to use more of just 10% of our brains function, with the help of a drug named (in the film) CPH4, found only in women six weeks into their pregnancy.
Johansson, the accidental guinea pig, becomes, as her percentage rises and rises, more alert, mentally and physically stronger - able to fight herself out of dangerous situations with remarkable speed.
And, as her percentage increases, so does her knowledge, about..everything.
She becomes telepathic and able to see into the past and future.
She has an alarming self-knowing of life and all things and being, yet, with these attributes comes the loss of the basic human qualities - fear, desire, and attachment.
Could we live in a world without these qualities? All of which, you could say, have brought us to both a frightening yet amazing time to be living in.
I think, it is how we have chosen to use/abuse these qualities of our human nature that may have brought us to where we are now, and it is now that we should question them..isn't it?
Are we capable of doing more for ourselves? Of learning more?
To take control and to take prudence when doing so, when and where it matters most.
Are we waking up yet? Have we woken up yet?
Have you woken up yet?
Have you seen Lucy yet?..
..and so,
she spent the rest of the afternoon chewing over her destiny..
and who knew what that would involve?…
x
