"I accept this challenge" Speyway stretched out his hand and hugged the professor tightly. He accepted this challenge that lasted for thousands of years and was determined to create a real perpetual motion machine.
As someone who likes to summarize themes, during the viewing process, I have been trying to be the first person to find out the theme of the film, but this film always makes me feel like a slippery loach, whenever I think I am When he was about to catch it, it twisted and ran away quickly.
A good movie always has a famous line. For example, in "The Shawshank Redemption", Andy sat on the rooftop and said: You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. Another example is "Dead Poets Society" "Captain, oh my captain."
I tend to think of one line as the headline of the whole movie.
So in the constant change of the scene, I try to assume that each line is the title of the film to see what the little boy wants to tell us.
At first, I thought it was a story about genius. Just like the little girl in "Girls Genius", the 9-year-old Speyway is very talented. He can draw extremely accurate biological structures, understand complex mechanical principles, and design hydraulic conveying devices. He invented the magnetic permanent motivation. But his family doesn't seem to realize his superhuman talent. His father lives in the dream of a cowboy, living the primitive life of the last century. His mother is obsessed with finding non-existent tabby ladybugs. His sister complains about the desolation every day. the mountains and grasslands, wondering how to escape from their birthplace. And his younger brother, his best playmate, was accidentally killed in a gun misfire.
The little Speyway won the Science Prize for his invention of the perpetual motion machine, and was invited to Washington to accept the award. He embarked on a journey across the United States alone.
How will the story develop? Will tell: No matter how talented, is it still a child's story? Or is it the American version of Shang Zhongyong? The story of a gifted child is nothing more than that.
But then I realized that this could be a satirical film about the adult world.
Speyway shuttled through the awards party and saw those smiles thinking of his own ingratiating smiles. He thought: The difference between a fake smile and a real smile, not only the zygomatic arch muscles will contract during fake smiles, but the muscles around the eyes will also be unconscious. shrink. Tonight, the smile is all around the eye-zygomatic arch.
Standing on the podium in Washington, he said:
Anyone here who doesn't have a Ph.D.? anyone? So I may not be able to impart anything to the professors tonight, but I want to tell you three things. First, thank you, thank you for not taking away the award because of my age.
So the hypocritical chairman and the utilitarian director pretended that this sentence had nothing to do with him.
The world of adults is full of too many fake smiles and too much hypocrisy. The appearance of this genius boy, with his wisdom that surpasses that of most adults and a still clear mind, contrasts the filth of this world.
Spivey went on to say:
Second, about the electromagnetic wheel. You can see that some of the parts are magnets. You must know that after 400 years, the magnets will be demagnetized. 400 years may seem like a long time on a human time scale, but a drop in the ocean when it comes to geological time. So we are still a long way from perpetual motion machines.
Third...my brother died this year...
The atmosphere of the film suddenly took a sharp turn, and all the sharpness and irony disappeared. Spivey stood on the stage and returned to the day of the accident, trembling about everything that happened that day, his fear, his remorse, from One day, all the family members changed. Although no one said or blamed him, Spivey knew that it was all his own fault.
So, I thought it was a story about confession. Even if everyone seemed to have forgiven him and chose to remain silent, Spivey still couldn't cross this threshold. If he didn't say it, it didn't mean that things had not happened, and what had happened could not be covered up. Spivey chose to speak out about this in such a public place, and he was willing to be criticized by everyone for it.
But at the end of the story, at the interview site, I know that this is a story about understanding and tolerance. Spivey's mother suddenly appeared at the interview site, she looked into Spivey's eyes and said: Tom's death, we are all sad, but it is not your fault. Then he picked up Spivey and rushed out of the studio.
The Bizarre Journey of Young Speyway is a beautiful American landscape blockbuster. Speyway travels through the mountains, through the plains, through the sunrise, through the sunset, and everything is full of fairy tale colors. He stood on the train and said loudly, "How beautiful the sun is, at the moment when it is about to bloom, the rays of light that appear are sending greetings! A person can salute the sunrise affectionately, that happiness is more dazzling than a dream!
There is irony and confession in this fairy tale, but I think it's a story of reconciliation.
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