![]() ![]() In Lucy, Johansson takes a step further, renouncing her humanity in order to become an organic supercomputer. In Limitless, Cooper’s character becomes a kind of super-yuppie, using his abilities to manipulate the world of high finance. Both movies make use of the myth that human being only use ten percent of their brains, in order to speculate what might happen if that other ninety percent were unlocked. ![]() In this way, the film bears a superficial similarity to the 2011 movie, Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper as a deadbeat writer whose life gets turned around when he ingests a tablet that unleashes his full inner potential. It starred Scarlett Johansson as the titular character: an American student coerced into becoming a drug mule, only to become something much stranger when her body starts absorbing the experimental substance carried in her stomach. The other night, I watched Lucy, the 2014 film written and directed by Luc Besson. ![]()
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