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about the present than future.” The movie Avatar (2009) and Lucy (2014) will be discussed in
support of the above statement.
Lucy is a movie directed by Luc Besson in the year 2014. It is a French science sci-fi
action film starring Scarlett Johansson as Lucy and Morgan Freeman as Professor Norman. It
is dependent on a myth that we only use ten per cent of the human brain. Lucy taps into a
possibility beyond limitless and unlocks a power that allows her to use 100 per cent of her
brain. The movies of sci-fi always revolve around one factor that is humanity versus progress.
Despite being 29 years old, Scarlet Johansson played the role of an American student who
lives in Taipei. She starts to date a sketchy man that wanted her to get one locked briefcase to
Mr. Keng, a mysterious person into a hotel (Shetley, 2018.) It clearly shows that it is an
unwise move, but the film is trying to give jarring cuts into images such as a mouse that is
approaching some trap. Those juxtapositions are only a link of what is going to come next in
the movie and also later into full blast through a Koyaanisqatsi-Esque-montage.
The statement “Science fiction is more about the present than future’ links with Lucy
in a way where the superpowers of Lucy depicts the future, but everything is happening in the
present. The main agenda of sci-fi movies are that they are always made in the present, but
even if they are watched after ten years, it still feels like a present. Lucy makes unintentional
contact with a narcotic that is new (Vrasidas et al. 2015.) After Mr. Keng’s hooligans get
hold of Lucy, she gets knocked out and comes in contact with CPH4 that gets inserted into
her belly. When the molesters end up hitting and defeat her, the chemical substance gets
leaked into the stream of her blood; it spreads all over her body resulting in giving birth to a
new superhero. Lucy is a 90-minute film where the prior two-thirds of the cinema is fun and
propulsive. She gets driven towards little avengful but also indulged in the hunt for other bags
full of drugs. CPH4 is a natural drug that is given to pregnant women. She has the ability to
make people float in the air, type in a supersonic speed and manipulate phone lines. These are

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