Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LUCY - A film For Sidhas Who Loves Beautiful Women

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From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]" 



Very violent but a great Luc Besson
  film.  I saw a couple months back in the nearby theater.



I wouldn't go so far as to call it "great," and didn't back when we discussed 
it here earlier. It was a pretty normal movie these days from Luc Besson, who 
is so bloody BUSY being the biggest producer of films in Europe (director of 21 
films or TV series, producer of 116, and writer of 56) that he can't always be 
relied on to do his best with all of them. :-)

As for those who've never seen the film talking about whether the "humans use 
only 10% of their brains" metaphor is correct, that's just silly. The film is 
fiction, and it's a metaphor. Those who really don't *get* fiction could just 
as have just as meaningless a debate about whether giant white whales really 
exist when discussing "Moby Dick."  :-)

Anyway, I agree with Bhairitu that the level of violence might be too much for 
some here, but here's the car chase scene, which is a wonderful combination of 
real stunt driving and CGI, and should be an utter delight for anyone who knows 
Paris well: 


Lucy Movie CLIP - Paris (2014) - Scarlett Johansson Action Movie HD

 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LUCY - A film For Sidhas Who Loves Beautiful Women

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 Very little violence in my opinion. Anyway violence is there everywhere and as 
long as you don't dwell on it or encourage it it it's ok, it would be foolish 
not to acknowledge it's excistence.
 Beautiful lips on an actor that has grown quite remarkable in recent years and 
Sidhis is what I remember from a film not among Luc Bessons best.

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 Very violent but a great Luc Besson film.  I saw a couple months back in the 
nearby theater.
 
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 Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American
 Observations HomeAboutContact
 Lucy Film Hinges on Brain Capacity Myth
 By Kate Wong | July 25, 2014 |  2 
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/07/25/lucy-film-hinges-on-brain-capacity-myth/#respond
 The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of 
Scientific American.
 
  
 
 Scarlett Johansson plays a woman who unlocks her brain power in the movie 
Lucy. Image: Universal Pictures
 On July 25, French film writer/director Luc Besson’s action thriller Lucy 
opens in theaters nationwide. The premise is that the title character, played 
by Scarlett Johansson, is exposed to a drug that unlocks her mind, giving her 
superhuman powers of cognition.  Themovie production notes  
http://www.lucymovie.com/pdf/lucy_production_notes.pdf[PDF] elaborate:
 “…It has long been hypothesized that human beings only use a small percentage 
of our cerebral capacity at any given time. For centuries, speculative science 
has postulated what would occur if mankind could actually evolve past that 
limit. Indeed, what would happen to our consciousness and newfound abilities if 
every region of the brain was concurrently active? If each one of the 86 
billion densely packed neurons in a human brain fired at once, could that 
person become, in fact, superhuman?”
 The notion that we humans have massive reserves of gray matter just sitting 
there waiting to be summoned into service has obvious appeal, but there is no 
scientific evidence to support it. And what’s odd about Besson’s reliance on 
this myth is that, according to the production notes, he allegedly set out to 
make the storyline scientifically plausible:
 “Although Besson believed that the idea of expanding one’s brain capacity made 
for tremendous action-thriller material, he was particularly intent on 
grounding—at least in part—Lucy in scientific fact.”
 Apparently he missed or ignored the many scientists who would have surely 
informed him that the idea that we use only a small portion of our brain (10 
percent, the story usually goes) is wrong. As Barry L. Beyerstein of the Brain 
Behavior Laboratory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver explained 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-really-use-only-10/ in a piece 
for Scientific American:
 “…the brain, like all our other organs, has been shaped by natural selection. 
Brain tissue is metabolically expensive both to grow and to run, and it strains 
credulity to think that evolution would have permitted squandering of resources 
on a scale necessary to build and maintain such a massively underutilized 
organ. Moreover, doubts are fueled by ample evidence from clinical neurology. 
Losing far less than 90 percent of the brain to accident or disease has 
catastrophic consequences. What is more, observing the effects of head injury 
reveals that there does not seem to be any area of the brain that can be 
destroyed by strokes, head trauma, or other manner, without leaving the patient 
with some kind of functional deficit. Likewise, electrical stimulation of 
points in the brain during neurosurgery has failed so far to uncover any 
dormant areas where no percept, emotion or movement is elicited by applying 
these tiny currents….”
 Neither do we regularly use only a little bit of the brain at a time, as 
science writer Robynne Boyd reported 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/
 in a piece for Scientific American. She quoted neurologist Barry Gordon of the 
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine:
 “”It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that 
[most of] the brain is active almost all the time,” Gordon adds. “Let’s put it 
this way: the brain represents three percent of the body’s weight and uses 20 
percent of the body’s energy.”
 Yet just because we are already using our entire brain does not mean we can’t 
enhance its powers. Exercise and diet can boost cognitive performance 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/six-ways-to-boost-brainpower/. And 
some researchers think cognitive training can make people smarter 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-design-exercises-that-make-you-smarter/.
 As for cognitive-enhancing drugs, the few that are available, such as Ritalin 
and Provigil, are quite the opposite of the compound Lucy is exposed to in the 
film. Rather than stimulating all of the brain’s neurons to sense everything in 
one’s environment, these drugs work to help people zero in. The results are a 
mixed bag, however, as my colleague Gary Stix has observed 
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/07/are-we-as-smart-or-dumb-as-we-can-get/:
 “Most of today’s cognitive enhancers improve our ability to focus—but most 
benefits accrue to those with attention deficits. They allow the child with 
ADHD to learn the multiplication tables, but for those with average attention 
spans 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LUCY - A film For Sidhas Who Loves Beautiful Women

[Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]]

Very violent but a great Luc Besson film.  I saw a couple months back in 
the nearby theater.


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