Better still, take a picture of the women in the factories that make the clothes.

Or that this is a SciFi movie, as in Science Fiction. I'm surprised that this aspect is being overlooked. Lucy is not, in any way, being marketed as a documentary.

Exactly. I have seen a methhead in clown makeup accost my husband to help him steal gas, but I have never seen the things ArtThistle is describing. Not buying it.

Indeed. I got a strong "seeking sugar daddy" vibe off a lot of these.

I'm not going to engage with this particular issue, but I will jump in to agree that some of the commenters here (especially the popular kids, ha ha) are unnecessarily rude and condescending if you disagree with them. Not cool.

Reading comp: note that I specifically mentioned TWO films. Have a nice day.

Legit question. I have wondered this, too. I think it is one part what you wrote in paragraph 2, one part ego/masculinity expectations. They want to be seen in public with a "hot" woman because it elevates their status in the eyes of other men and subsequently themselves.

Agree. People are fixating excessively on this one aspect of the movie, ignoring that it is a science *fiction* film that never made any claims to mirror reality.

Lucy was a really fun movie. I thought that Scarlett rocked the part, and I'm intrigued by the direction that her work is taking with this movie and Her. Interesting that her last two films involve transcending the physical body, given that she is a "bombshell" actress.

This is a fair point, unfortunately. We are already beginning to see this trend in action movies, and it is thinly veiled misogyny.

I was referring to the part that said "police are now investigating him for animal abuse." From the looks of the updated story, the police got involved. Like I said, that's probably ultimately a good thing.

It was a clever takedown by the restaurant. I think that's the takeaway.

See my response to RicoDidit. Yes, this is a bit overblown, but there is a lesson here.

I'm torn, honestly. Involving the police seems a little over the top, but goofing around with guns is not cool, even if in this case the cat wasn't harmed. This man should own neither animals nor guns, and I hope that the authorities show him that there are consequences to his reckless and irresponsible actions.

Here is his sidekick:

I get what you are saying here. ABC is still playing it *relatively* safe. A riskier move would have been to sympathetically depict a woman having an abortion simply because she didn't want to be pregnant, whatever the stage in the pregnancy. However, if this episode opened any eyes to the reality of what "late term"…

I know. The one time I attempted something like this, and I was fairly gentle about it, the encounter devolved into "fuck you, bitch, cunt cow, etc."

Fair enough!

It's awful. She's a super-competitive, perfectionist type, so everything must be justified and explained. "I failed" or "I made a mistake" is never an option.

Of course. That would be excellent. However, that is, unfortunately, asking a lot from the culture industry, especially all at once. I guess I see things like the Esquire article as tiny baby steps in the process of broadening the mainstream cultural narrative to include a wider range of women. Having one's…