Split

There’s a moment in Luc Besson’s Lucy where Scarlett Johansson’s titular character, whose ‘brain usage’ will go from 10% to 100% over the course of the film, sits on an operating table in Taipei. She holds the surgeons at gunpoint until they agree to cut open her abdomen to remove a bag of synthetic drugs that has given her strange new powers. While the anesthetic-less operation is underway Lucy calls her mother. The camera pushes in on her face, a blank stare that succumbs to a quivering li...