Film Opening: Evaluation 2

For the character Christa representing certain social groups, I have decided to compare her to the character Lucy from the 2014 movie ‘Lucy’. Both Christa and Lucy are strong and independent women who have supernatural powers. However, in the beginning of ‘Lucy’, she isn’t always like this and appears very vulnerable and weak in some scenes. This is much like Christa who is seen praying inside of the Church, to a God that will not listen. This suggests that Christa is perhaps desperate and in need of help, however, the tone change in the piece symbolises her transition from a young girl into a strong woman. This is shown by the flashback transitions and her running away from the church, abandoning it. Flashbacks are also used of Lucy when she rewinds time back to the age where humans were apes.

Despite Lucy changing costume several times within the movie, as you can see above, both Lucy and Christa are wearing pretty much the same costume. Neither of the character’s costumes are used to sexualise them which is very common once there is a strong female lead within a movie, ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’ is a perfect example of this. Instead, they were very plain clothes (black bottoms, white top) so that the clothing does not distract from their actions.

Lucy and Christa are almost from opposite sides of the religion v science spectrum. Lucy is surrounded by a very scientific environment and gained her powers from a drug. Whereas Christa is very religiously surrounded and subsequently gained her powers by being the second coming of Christ. The two characters are also different in age. Lucy is still a young woman but still older than Christa. Therefore, this suggests that they would attract different age groups however I think that the other defining aspects of Christa and Lucy will attract a variety of ages.