Do not be a man

On Thursday, September 11, Lucy Besson enters our rental

“Lucy” rhymes with another picture that has just appeared - Hollywood anti -utopia “dedicated”. Both are based on philosophical thoughts on what point and why a person ceases to be a person.

The frame from the film "Lucy" Luke Besson is not films about atrocities, although among the characters of Besson - the killer, and there are plenty of blood in "Lucy". These are not films about politicians who are ready to ditch millions of their and other people's citizens for the benefit, although politicians also act in the “dedicated”. These are unique film works for our times of the New Cold War, the authors of which allowed themselves to ignore the momentary nightmares and plunge into thoughts on the topic: what is a person. The world without colors “dedicated” directed by Phillip Neis is the film adaptation of Roman Lois Lauri The Giver, written in 1993. In the USA, the novel is included in school programs. We have published under the name “giving”, but the name “dedicated” is also justified. For modern societies, the genre of anti -utopia, in which the conflicts of the present are projected into the future, intensifying there a thousand -way, almost the most relevant. “Dedicated” is a soft version of anti -utopia. He is not about the power of the Nazis. He is about a society that built communism is a world in which there is no inequality. But then the focus - in the end, fascism was still turned out. "

In a society where the cult of honesty is preached, the owner of knowledge, so as not to confuse morals, is allowed to lie

“The lack of inequality, collectivism, according to the book and the film, is the first sign of human loss. The roots of the“ dedicated ”in the main anti -utopia of the 20th century - the novel by George Orwell“ 1984 ”. Haos and hatred reigned on earth. Harmony reigned. Families live in the same houses, and children do not make children obtained using artificial fertilization and they are reigned. The state, after reaching an adulthood, gives out a special class - a standard for anti -utopias - in accordance with the abilities, who - in the sphere of intelligence, who - in the sphere of security forces, who are in the same women in childbirth They are too perfect - they are no longer people.

The world of the “dedicated” is black and white but in “dedicated”-innovation for anti-utopias is also black and white: the ability to distinguish colors in people is killed, since this is also a reason for inequality. Another innovation: the leaders of the nation are the same victims of a new order, as fraught as their subordinates (usually in anti -utopia leaders - cynics that use the rules they have implemented to curb the herd of citizens). The main leader, by the way, agreed to portray Maryri Streep-this already speaks of America's respect for the first-hand novel. But the leaders who, for the sake of equality, erased the historical memory of both the people and themselves, still need experience in order to resolve emergency situations. Therefore, in society there is one consultant who is given to own knowledge, including historical ones. It is interesting that in a society where the cult of honesty is preached, the owner of knowledge devoted, so as not to embarrass the customs, is allowed to lie. A sort of Suslov. Or sand. "

If humanity resolves all social problems (inequality, crime, wars of etc.), it will cease to be humanity at the same moment

“The trouble of politicians, the elderly owner of the knowledge depicts another Hollywood Grand - Jeff Bridges, is a potential dissident. Another misfortune, a new young dedicated, which he gives (here is an explanation of the names of the book and the film), also reports historical experience, also immediately begins to question the validity of the existing order. Not in vain in one well -known country is erased by the education: Knowledge is always a danger to totalitarian power. Starting from 1956), where the correct aliens are being introduced into the shells of people, instantly stopping all wars on Earth: people become non -humans.

The owner of the knowledge (Jeff Bridges) opens up the unpleasant truth about the world without errors on the dedicated (Brenton Twaits)

Lucy and bandits in a philosophical approach to the problem - that there is a person - “dedicated” and echoes the “Lucy” Besson, in which the “matrix” (where the future people take control of the computer mind) is reunited with the “tree of life” of Terrence Malik - there the life of an ordinary person is shown as a natural and inalienable part of the development of the Universe. Two plots develop in parallel (there is also an insert at the level of forbidden, invisible to the eye, but psychologically affecting the viewer of the 25th frame). 1) The story of an American played by Scarlett Johansson, a rare Hollywood star, who spends most of his career not on blockbusters, but on advanced film a film. The heroine of Johansson, pulling herself in Taiwan, landed in a bad story with the Korean mafia, who obliged her to carry her to Europe in her own stomach a new super -tank. 2) the story of the professor (Oscar -Konosets Morgan Freeman), giving a lecture that a person uses only ten percent of the capabilities of his own brain, while twenty dolphins. 3) Hochmal inserting illustrations in the spirit of “Amelie”: when Korean mafiosi approach the heroine, frames go, as Jaguar pursues and catches a roe deer. But there is history No. 4: paintings of the development of the universe and our world, but not as in the “tree of life”, in the reverse order: from today to the Big Bang.

The heroine Scarlett Johansson is gradually losing his human appearance and then a bag with a new drug is torn in the heroine’s stomach, penetrates into her - and her brain begins to develop radically. We see the gradual changes that occur with it when her brain reaches twenty, thirty (the percentage of changes is reflected on the screen), seventy, and, finally, one hundred percent of efficiency. After twenty -five, she loses a feeling of pain and sympathy for a stranger pain. She becomes a nonsense. To a hundred percent, she is a god to whom not only all computers of the world and human bodies that she can control are available, but also time travel, as well as the secrets of the universe. In order to convey knowledge, she, understanding the wretchedness of the human mind and the form in which he can perceive the information, turns into a flash drive. However, outside the “philosophy of pure mind” in Lucy there are bandits whom Besson hates. Bandits of specific races and nations. Besson, obviously, is aware of what is happening in the world and calls the human shit-this is not the first time-namely those who deserves this, not afraid of either revenge or criticism, in their production and scenario projects in recent years: “13th district” (there are bastards-the French), “hostage” (Albanians), “from Paris and Nigerians), in the recent directory) "Malawites" Tonino Benackista (American-Italians). Philosophy with philosophy, but worst of all, according to Besson, the power of the bandits. She is already exactly beyond any ideas about humanity. As if Besson did not reach ours in the near future. However, let him get.