CLIP FILM LUCY PRODUCTION: USA/France 2014 DIRECTOR: Luc Besson STARRING: Scarlett Johansson (Lucy), Morgan Freeman (Professor Samuel Norman), Amr Waked (Pierre Del Rio) SYNOPSIS The film starts with a cell splitting up into multiple other cells, and soon after, a proto-human in prehistoric times is drinking from a lake. Lucy narrates that life began billions of years ago and what we have done with it since then. ponders In the present, Lucy is a young woman with a drug, called CPH4, stuffed into her intestine. A criminal kicks her stomach, and this causes a tear in the drug bag, leaking the powder into Lucy’s system. Meanwhile, Professor Norman is giving a lecture. He explains what could happen if humans could exceed the 10% brain capacity that they use. If they could reach up to 40%, they could manipulate matter. Lucy reawakens, with her eyes glowing bright blue. She is able to dig a bullet out from her shoulder without feeling pain and hears peoples’ voices from outside the car. A doctor pulls the bag of drugs out of her stomach, and she contacts Professor Norman. She has now reached 20% brain capacity and is able to manipulate electronics, appearing on Norman’s TV, as well as on his phone and the radio. “40%” flashes onscreen. Lucy discovers a tooth in her glass, and then she spits up three more teeth. Then her skin starts to disintegrate. She wakes up in a hospital room, with her brain functioning now at 60%. She realizes that her brain exceeds human capacity. Lucy and Del Rio, a policeman, find Norman, and she describes all she has come to realise with her brain power. Lucy gives the rest of the CPH4 to the professor to synthesize into a liquid material that goes into her bloodstream. Her brain function goes to 70%, and her hands start to turn into a black wormy substance that attaches itself to the computers in the room, giving Lucy more energy from matter, and supplying her with an insane amount of power. As her brain function continues to increase, she manipulates matter and erases everything in the room, leaving a white space before creating some kind of new-age super-computer. She travels backwards, from early 20th century New York to colonial times, even all the way to prehistoric times to come face-to-face with the proto-human from the opening scene. They touch fingers, sending Lucy through the cosmos and all of space and time, giving her unlimited and infinite power. She reaches 100% and her body disappears. The black matter morphs into a flash drive that lands in Norman’s hands, thus expanding and completing his research. A message from Lucy appears on the phone: "I AM EVERYWHERE." Adapted from: IMDB - Lucy Synopsis BEFORE WATCHING 7. Lucy is the protagonist of the story, but it is also the name given to an Australopithecus, the oldest hominid ever discovered. Read the synopsis to discover the relationship between the two. GLOSSARY to ponder: riflettere