The two mathematicians in the film, especially the young one, actually try to apply those formulas and logic in real life, which is really self-tortured. Challenging infinite chaos with limited intelligence is the most maddening thing. Would the young man be driven mad by the surging information that the old professor directed him to pay attention to if the nurse hadn't pulled him back into the world, and if the puzzle wasn't solved quickly?
The old professor may have long since lost his dream of connecting reality with mathematics. In his speech, he quoted Wiegentstein as saying to keep silent, but he published a book himself. This in itself is a betrayal. Obviously, he has retreated from the cliff where the wind of chaos is the strongest, but he guides young people step by step to use mathematics to analyze crimes. Their thinking has always been on two axes, one focusing on the present, the other still gazing at eternity.
As the professor said, knowing the butterfly effect, who can predict a storm from the flapping of a butterfly's wings? Too many variables make prediction impossible, and even if it were, it would draw too many conclusions to make predictions meaningless at all. Perhaps this plan is the best summary of his mathematics, logic and life experience. Every moment is the edge of chaos. The butterfly flutters its wings a few times, not knowing how the future will change.
In the years to come, young people will recall over and over again, Wittstein's assertion that silence must be kept of the unspeakable.
If he hadn't been giving Beth advice too easily, or discussing his idea of a serial killer model with the professor too easily, the world would have been a different, worse, or better place.
Those who say this film is simple probably because of the tear that Beth saw. But there are countless explanations for that teardrop. If someone chooses the smoothest explanation at the beginning of the film, then you really don't have to watch it any more. You haven't accepted that reality - the world is very complicated, and there are countless Variables are wandering.
A suspenseful movie will show the key evidence that leads to the final conclusion in the movie. This is common sense and habitual thinking. Watching the movie with this habitual thinking will lose the most touching part of the movie. A logical sequence, 1, 2, 3, what is the next number? You simply chose 4, but it could be 5, which is a sequence of prime numbers, or 1, which is just an infinite loop of 123, or 11, which is ternary, or 5, but this 5 is the result of 2+3...Professors are humble because of their erudition, and young mathematicians are blind because of their confidence. If you accept that tear so easily, I hope you can doubt yourself a little at the end of the film, not because of guessing I am proud of the ending, because it is only one of the infinite possibilities, so I would like to thank the screenwriter for his kindness.
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