Here the aspect ratio changes to reflect Lucy's emotional state as a very baseline stylistic decision, like a comic book or a trailer for a 90's dark comedy. I'm a huge Peter Greenaway fan, and he would often create structural and stylistic events in his films to remind the audience that they are watching a movie and to comment on the medium and how we process visual information. People go nuts because the movie they're watching changes aspect ratio about 15 times in the first 30 minutes.

People, namely specialists with extreme technical expertise who have trained their bodies and minds to physically traverse the atmosphere and Earth's outer orbit in advanced technological dirigibles don't go nuts because they went into outer space. This is sci-fi in the sense that normal science exists and the story is fiction, but this story could have taken place in nearly any setting if not for Lucy's space-induced insanity - the most ludicrous aspect of the film according to 'real life' astronaut Marsha Ivins. That's about as 'science fiction' as this sci-fi flick will muster so don't be expecting laser blasters, mysterious signals from another planet, or aliens. Chalking up another bizarre entry in her filmography after VOX LUX, Portman plays a bona fide corn pone ass-tro-not coping with the immensity of the cosmos and the insignificance of Earthly life after one eye-opening space walk from a space station in a space suit in outer space. Instead, I got LUCY IN THE SKY, and buddy, let me tell you, I wish I had been on some of the Beatles' cryptically referenced hallucinogen of choice for this one. I'm just your every day, average Joe, and like most people I went to the theater to see Natalie Portman in another tour de force performance in a prestige vehicle that would serve as further affirmation of this year's trend for smart, entertaining, and well made space dramas. With that said, this review was 'inspired by a real movie'. That's why movies are remarkable, and real life just kind of happens all the time.

The real events often don't have as much artistic flair to them. Obviously, there are some major dramatic and thematic embellishments that seem to be at the heart of many of the negative reviews for this movie, but I personally wouldn't care to see LISA IN THE CAR WITH DIAPERS. In this instance, director Noah Hawley and his co-writers culled from the real life story of disgraced astronaut Lisa Nowak and the love triangle that drove her incontinence cross-continent on a 900 mile trip to attempt the kidnapping of her astronaut lover's girlfriend. I feel as though I've ranted ad infinitum about movies that are 'inspired by real events' as the post title card in LUCY IN THE SKY purports the proceeding film to be, so I won't beat the point to death.

Lucy in my eyes