"...We tell our story, not for the purpose of pleasure, but for the advancement of knowledge and for the good of us all." people's interests.
In the past, the laws of the world's operation were chaotic to human beings. People at the time admired Newton because Newton's theory of gravity changed the way people looked at the movement of celestial bodies in space.
James Glaisher is a scientist, or more precisely, who studies meteorology and calls himself a meteorologist. However, people at that time had very limited understanding of meteorology. They thought that forecasting the weather was nonsense and meaningless, and even laughed at him as a wizard who predicted the weather in the crystal ball.
James' meteorological research required meteorological data from the sky, but these data had to be in the air to be observed and obtained. There were no airplanes at the time, but luckily, some scientists invented the hot air balloon and used it to get off the ground and fly into the air. This has to be said to be a major breakthrough, and the hot air balloon can just help James achieve this purpose. However, scientists have become a group of adventurers who are keen to constantly refresh the heights reached by hot air balloons, but scoff at James' meteorological research and are reluctant to give him funds.
The newspaper published the fact that James was ridiculed by the group when he gave a speech at the Royal Academy, and his father could not stand by James in the doubts and ridicule of the scientists. James had only one friend who was not good at persuading others. However, it was this friend who persuaded Amelia Wren, a female aviator who had given up her cooperation with James in the middle, and led James and Amelia to take a hot air balloon to the sky together.
Although James and Amelia's flight was nominally aimed at setting a world record for hot air balloon flight altitude, James was actually trying to better understand what the sky above the clouds was like in order to better conduct his meteorological research. He brought a lot of testing instruments to observe and record data, and he even prepared carrier pigeons, just in case they were unfortunate, at least his data could be sent back to the laboratory for others to study. It is also because of these preparations that James persuaded Amelia to keep losing weight to increase the flying height, even if his hands were shaking and even the carrier pigeons were frozen to death.
James' frail body made him comatose on the hot air balloon. If Amelia, who is experienced and brave, risked her life, climbed to the top of the hot air balloon to open the valve, James' first flight might have been him. The last time in this life. In the end, with their shared resourcefulness and bravery, they landed alive.
When James again stood in the middle of the Royal Academy of Sciences speech, he thanked his luck, the help of friends, especially Amelia's extraordinary courage. Finally, he said the sentence originally quoted in this review.
At the end of the film, what attracted me was the soft, evocative narration:
We took to the sky in the name of discovery, to find something new, to change the world. But we don't change the world simply by looking at it...
Yes, changing the world is not easy. It is not possible to change the world by looking at it like a bystander. We need to be in it, have a direction, and overcome all kinds of difficulties and setbacks, even if we are not understood. Work hard to achieve what we want. Because what we want to do is not for simple happiness, but for the advancement of knowledge and for a better world.
Perhaps, this is the true spirit of scientists.
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