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Lucy
Movie

Lucy

2014 • Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Woke Score
5
out of 10

Plot

It was supposed to be a simple job. All Lucy had to do was deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But immediately Lucy is caught up in a nightmarish deal where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach leaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that begins to unlock her mind's full potential. With her new-found powers, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. She receives invaluable help from Professor Norman, the leading authority on the human mind, and French police captain Pierre Del Rio.

Overall Series Review

The film focuses on a science-fiction concept of unlocking the brain's full potential, quickly transforming its initially vulnerable protagonist into an amoral, omnipotent entity. The narrative's core theme is a spiritual vacuum, suggesting human existence and its traditional institutions are flawed and must be replaced by pure, transcendent intellect. The main character exhibits an extreme version of the 'Girl Boss' trope, gaining instantaneous, overwhelming power that renders all male characters incompetent or merely supportive. The primary action revolves around her violent conflict with an Asian crime syndicate, with the protagonist and her intellectual/law-enforcement allies being primarily American and European. The plot contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ themes and does not feature a direct attack on Western civilization, though it positions scientific evolution as the ultimate, secular replacement for religious faith.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics3/10

The narrative features a white female protagonist quickly gaining omnipotent power after being victimized by an Asian criminal organization, leading to her violent domination over non-white villains. This structure invokes a 'white savior' dynamic, though the underlying conflict is strictly criminal and philosophical, not racial. Character merit is quickly supplanted by the effects of a drug, which is colorblind in its distribution.

Oikophobia2/10

The film's critique is aimed universally at baseline humanity, which is depicted as chaotic, emotional, and underutilized (the 10% brain myth), rather than specifically targeting Western civilization or heritage. The world—including its laws and institutions—is merely an inefficient backdrop to be manipulated by the transcendent protagonist. The institutions of the family, church, and nation are not a focus of the story.

Feminism8/10

The main character is an instant 'Girl Boss,' transforming from a victim to an all-powerful, god-like being with no effort or training. Her dramatic transcendence is immediate and total, rendering all male characters in the film either incompetent, easily killed, or relegated to a passive, expositional support role, such as Professor Norman. The source of the drug is a synthetic version of a hormone produced during pregnancy, yet its use is strictly for transcending the physical body, suggesting the ultimate fulfillment is not in biological, maternal function but in pure, disembodied intellect.

LGBTQ+1/10

The story does not include any overt LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or ideological messaging. The narrative's focus remains entirely on action, science fiction, and philosophical transhumanism, keeping sexuality as a completely private, non-central issue.

Anti-Theism9/10

The plot's conclusion is a profound statement on secular, materialist transcendence, wherein the protagonist literally evolves into an omniscient, omnipresent pure intellect. This self-attainment of divinity is presented as the ultimate 'meaning' of life, directly challenging and replacing traditional religious concepts of God and creation. The finale directly references Michelangelo's *The Creation of Adam* to frame a purely scientific/evolutionary path to godhood, embracing a completely subjective, amoral power dynamic as superior to any objective truth or higher moral law.