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gender, science fiction, and utopianism in Luc Besson’s movie

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2022.v9.38460

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on the film Lucy (2014), by Luc Besson, observing aspects related to cinema, utopianisms of culture, and science fiction, with especial attention to gender issues. Based on an analytical perspective that dialogues with the utopian critical studies (Claeys 2013; Coelho 2006; Seed 2011; Suvin 2010), the cinema studies (Aumont e Marie 2003; Bernardet 2006; Martin 2013; Tasker 2004), and the cultural feminist critique (Cavalcanti 2003, 2011; Cixous 2017; Mulvey 2017), we perform a critical reading that, although focusing on the film, also take into consideration extradiegetic elements, concerning the cinema industry, in order to analyse what is weak, strong, and ambiguous in Besson’s film regarding the feminine protagonist. Furthermore, we analyse the way Lucy incorporates and transforms science fiction’s and feminist dystopia’s themes in the context of action film.

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Published

2022-12-16