I'm pretty sure I heard that to.
It was around the time he was presenting to that group of people.
You heard what too, that he says we only use 10% of our brains, or that we only use 10% of our brain's capacity?
He's doing the lecture at the school or whatever, yeah, and then he talks in front of a slide that says 15% but they must have cut that part out because next thing we know he's talking about 20% and there's a slide about dolphins. He talks about echolocation and then goes on to 30%, where he surmises that we'd have total control of our own bodies, beyond that we'd be able to control other's bodies, then he brings up telekinesis, and then someone asks about 100% and he admits that he has no idea. The whole time I kept waiting for him to say the classic line but I'm like so sure he never does, he only ever says capacity.
I'm open to being wrong I'm just like... so sure I'm not. I wish there was a script or something online so I could verify since I do have some self doubt.
Anyway, I'm going down the list and when I get to Lucy, I kind of say it with this certain scoffy tone, and she immediately looks at me and says she really wants to see it because it'll be so good. Right away I'm in disbelief, but I keep calm and just state that if she just got superpowers from drugs, it would be alright.
"But she does!"
No, she gets the ability to use more of her brain or some shit, which doesn't make any sense.
"Sure it does!"
First of all, the 10% of our brain bullshit is bullshit, and it doesn't make sense that "using more of our brain" would let us move shit telepathically and stop time or whatever.
"Of course it makes sense! There's a certain frequency that we need for our brains to work, she can just manipulate it by using 100% of her brain."
What?
Okay, whatever, but wtf does this have to do with Lucy and using your brain to move shit with your mind?
Uhhhh. I don't think so. I think the movie's just stupid because even if I were to use "100%" of my brain, I couldn't stop time.
"Yeah, that part doesn't make much sense I guess."
Just wanted to point out, I think you don't know how superpowers work? At lot of them that involve telekinesis, telepathy, etc use... their brains. Like that is where that power originates from. Actual fringe science, science fiction, comics, that shit always, always is a mind power. So in the world of the movie, where gaining more control of your brain and accessing more of its latent functions, happens when she ODs on this drug, her getting "powers" from it make complete sense. Like the entire study in the real world on telepathy, it's a brain function. The theory of telepathy and telekinesis being latent brain functions is like, THE theory. That's where those powers come from. Not your hands or your chest, your brain. The actual real world fringe science theory is that if we had greater control over our brains, we could communicate via thought and move objects with our minds. The premise of the movie may be ridiculous, but that's not the part you should be taking issue with.
As for the second part, she doesn't stop time. She becomes time. It's a take on another fringe science theory about humans (or other creatures) eventually evolving out of our bodies and simply becoming pure energy.