so the student that really needed a "break" didnt get one. The film intends for us to wrestle around in this murky ambiguity, trying to suss out whether the characters are—in the language of the script—monsters, saints, or perhaps a bit of both. Parents who are highly educated yet couldnt/wouldnt learn how to pronounce his real name. And for Stephanie. He wanted to show how easy it is for a young black male to be cast in a negative light based on circumstantial evidence/ information. By taking away sports she ensured he had no chance in life. He doesn't like her that much. Rather than discuss her concerns about the paper with him or his parents and find out how its ideas might have been informed by Luce’s complicated and singular past— an opportunity most teachers at a well-heeled high school would have relished—Ms. He writes a provocative essay, which troubles Spencer. And I think she just wants to live a normal life like her husband stated, and not live a long-life where they raised a refugee, who then went rogue on them, and try to take him down. Being the parents of a valedictorian is better than being the parents of someone in prison. But she didnt. In its brittle exploration of the darkness lurking within a seemingly perfect suburban family, as well as a young African American perhaps manipulating liberal naiveté, the film comes off as an icy cross between Ordinary People and Six Degrees of Separation. And my guess is that they have sex at the end because Luce is just turned on by the fact that Steph helped him in achieving his evil plan. All content Copyright © 2010 - 2020 Wordfind. (It’s also a little odd that the actors appear so ill at ease despite the fact that both of their characters are shown swilling wine by the fistful.). He has a very difficult and frustrating teacher, and after that teacher ruins his friend, he wants to get revenge. What happens at 100% brain usage can’t anyways be fathomed by us mere 10% souls. (Lucy Ending Explained) Once all the CPH4 goes in, her brain nears 90% utilization. She handed all the evidence to the parents. She says no one is hurt but how does she know he won’t Do it again? Luce ends up playing less like a movie than it does a first-year law school lecture class. He comes to realize that he will always be put on a pedestal by others because of preconceived racial stereotypes as opposed to being just another person. We search a large Scrabble dictionary for words ending with the letter or word you enter, and generate all words ending with Luce (words with the suffix luce). I also recommend the movie Mandy (with Nicholas Cage's best performance), which has similar emotion build up! But I guess it signifies that maybe we all want to see everyone succeed. While he claims they belong to someone else, Ms. Wilson wonders if they might be a sign that the track and debate team super-star may be someone else entirely. She busted Deshawn who only had sports to make a difference in his life. But, that wasn’t his experience. She was particularly harsh on those she thought were fulfilling negative stereotypes. So this just fuels the fire of Luce's revenge. For example, one of the only lectures we hear Ms. Wilson deliver is about code switching (wink, wink), despite it being a topic more fitting for an advisory class than one on advanced history. As Lucy’s brain function elevates further and further, she is able to tap into and use all forms of energy around her. Similarly, driving home the film’s theme of tokenism, the school’s principal, played by two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz, refers to Luce as a “thoroughbred” and says things like, “If you googled the words ‘model student,’ Luce’s picture would come up.” It’s all a bit too on point. Life is more messy than just declaring someone is all good after a certain amount of therapy. Or is he a troubled teenager "acting out" in fairly typical teen ways? We Promise. We see Luce in the movie struggle with this in the scene where one of his other friends called Deshaun “black-black” and when he asks what he is, his friend says that “he is Luce”. My take is that Luce doesn't like being pigeon holed into the exemplary black student role because it distances him from his black class mates who he wants to relate to. Maybe he knew his mother would lie for him. So I'm on my phone right now heading away from the theatre. If you liked that movie, I'll recommend something else that gets at some very potent (and currently relevant) ideas about the shifting "balance of power" between a teacher and student: David Mamet's disturbing Oleanna: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110722/, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Wordfind.com is not affiliated with SCRABBLE®, Mattel, Spear, Hasbro, or Zynga with Friends in any way. Then he could have possibly manipulated Ms. Wilson's sister, by saying how Ms. Wilson is not fond of her own sister, and has troubled accepting her. It's probably somewhere in between, and it's hard to tell. In this meeting, Spencer demands that Watts bring the fireworks so that she has some shred of proof that Luce is up to something bad. 1. So, I'd have to agree that Luce brought in the sister because he followed Ms. Wilson to the market to meet them. What follows is some cat and mouse, gas lighting, crazy stuff and I don't know how to feel. But the gist of what happens from here is that Luce starts "acting out", seeking some sort of revenge on Octavia Spencer. His ordinary life as a teenager lacked interest. Maybe cuz Luce thought she was appealing in the dark, he wanted to hang a bit more. Directed by Julius Onah. This is an excellent write-up. From here, this completes his "revenge". I think I understand everything that happened but I just don't know how I feel. His final message to Watts is basically claiming "yes, I'm still acting out, but I want to be better". So during this conversation, Luce had to manipulate her again to help him mess up Ms. Wilson before the principle meeting. This got exacerbated when Spencer found weed in DeShaun's locker (Luce's friend). !!! Luce dislikes her, and wants revenge (his exact motivations are exactly what you're supposed to discuss and ponder, he has many messy reasons). My favorite scene in the movie is their final one. And during that time Steph would tell Luce how Ms. Wilson would make statements about her. uhhh, except the fireworks, that was pretty blatant lol. However if she busted Luce in a similar fashion, Luce would survive just fine. I rambled for a while here, and certainly didn't cover every part of the movie. Great write up. A list of words that end with Luce. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Harriet points out to Luce at her house that she didn’t put him in a box, America did. He has someone plant those same fireworks (which Naomi Watts claims Spencer had the whole time) in Spencer's desk, set them off, causing a fire in the school and thus humiliating Spencer (because it looked like she "went rogue", and put the school in danger). I felt that the most telling part of the whole film was the scene when he was sitting with his mum at the end and mentioned how they always hid his Christmas presents where they hid the fireworks (thus how he found them to set up his teacher). The gist of the story is that Luce took revenge on his teacher, Octavia Spencer. This is too much for me to summarize here, but the basic idea is that Watts eventually decides that in the face of all this uncertainty and doubt, she would rather unconditionally love Luce, and support him, despite his possible misdeeds. There is a subplot about alcohol, consent and sexual assault; the film explores questions of nature versus nurture; it also discusses the expectation of privacy in semi-public spaces. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The Fireworks: Early in the movie, Spencer had given Naomi Watts the illegal fireworks, so that she could confront Luce about it. It’s that he’s realized that he didn’t win; he ruined another person’s life but the labelling won’t stop. But we've seen throughout the entire movie that he's an extremely effective manipulator, and of course this is also another form of manipulation. Also try our list of Words that start with luce, and words that contain luce, and Synonyms of luce.. Search for words that end with a letter or word: But advertising revenue helps support our journalism. Stephanie claims that she is going to verify that Luce was at that part, and participated in the sexual assault. Directed by: Julius Onah Search for words that end with a letter or word: Sign up for our Free Scrabble Words newsletter. This could have been falsely thought by Steph!!!! Instead, its starch-stiff script forces the characters to communicate obtusely and act illogically so it can tease out these vagaries, veiling in a shroud of overly-contrived mystery matters that could have been dealt with directly. !!! And this scene summarizes the central issue of the movie. When his Government and History teacher Ms. Wilson (Octavia Spencer) tasks him to write an essay in the voice of a historical figure, Luce chooses the Martinique-based political philosopher, apparently focusing on Fanon’s belief that decolonization was by nature a violent process and seemingly ignoring his call for a national culture among oppressed Africans. He goes to confront Spencer at her house, and basically gloats, in a somewhat ineffectual scene (which I didn't particularly like). The other background catalyst event was something which happened at a party, where Stephanie was the victim of some form of sexual harassment or assault. We can never know the emotions he really experienced during his refugee time period. That’s because he had enough content for his speech. I loved the movie, and it kept me yelling "No way!". Same! The details of the evolution of his plot are a little unclear, but they also aren't really the focus. Generally, the motivations of the characters are the parts that are left slightly ambiguous (not totally, but there's room for plausible disagreement), whereas the events are more clear. Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Norbert Leo Butz, Andrea Bang, and Marsha Stephanie Blake It's best to frame it in terms of characters, and their arcs. She finds illegal fireworks in his locker, and she tells the parents that they should confront the fact that Luce might be fully "past" his troubled upbringing. His history teacher (Spencer) levels accusations against him at school. Fittingly for a film that prides itself on being open-ended and somewhat inscrutable, there are many ways to interpret that anecdote. If they did, they seemed ok about it, which is plain weird haha! So like what Ms. Wilson did to Deshawn, Luce did to Ms. Wilson. Is it a story of goodwill, charity and second chances? To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.We'd really appreciate it. My original interpretation of the end when Luce’s face contorts in rage was that his image had crumbled; others now knew that he wasn’t the model, perfect kid that everyone seemed to think he was however I’ve come to a different conclusion now sort of. 100% goes beyond dimensions and into the meta-physical. D would take our his own revenge on the teacher ( he has incentive as he lost his scholarship ) while Luce framed himself to be the perpetrator. But if you listed your points of confusion, I could probably try and clear them up. (Key to the background of all of this is that Luce is beloved and an extremely effective manipulator, the principal is on his side the whole time).