The director seems to want to create another so-called 'high-IQ movie'. In fact, the opening speech made me think this would be another Beautiful Mind, even better if it was completely academic. I don't say I'm an academic maniac, but I did have the mood to learn some simple mathematics and philosophy at the time. Just didn't expect to be a detective movie. The story is good, and the dialogue before the end is especially exciting, bringing the two back to the starting point of each other's position.
Leaving aside the plot and theory, and just talking about the movie, what I want to express is that it seems that many people (like the director of this film) seem to think that it is a cool and cool thing to add some tongue-in-cheek terms to the lines. In fact, for directors and writers alike, it's good to know something outside of their majors—mathematics, biology students, or doctors write such plots too easily. But once you're in the 'storyteller' position, it's not your job anymore, it's your job to present this content in your own easy-to-understand language and then seamlessly integrate it into your story. Just use the words "we are here", that is, don't pretend to be B, pretend that B is struck by lightning.
However, it may also be due to differences in British English, or because the subtitles of the cinema version are badly translated. I heard 'let me translate it into British English' and my first reaction was that this thing is going to go round and round again.
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