Based on the real history of chess in the last century. During the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, another contest was also going on. In the world of chess, the first few seats have been controlled by the Soviet Union. The mathematics and philosophical wisdom of the old Tsarist Russia seems to have been mocking the IQ of the upstart Yankees on the chessboard. And the youngest chess king in the United States, Bob Fisher, was born. He is extremely smart and neurotic, and he has chosen the global master in offensive and defensive consecutive games that do not follow common sense. He has always regarded the world chess king and Soviet master Boris as the highest enemy, and deep in his heart, he is also deeply convinced of the evil Soviet theory and the terrorist KGB, which are the most popular in American public opinion, and is full of psychological hatred. High and low.
In 1972, Reykjavik, Iceland, a decisive battle that caused a sensation in the world took place here. 12 games, live broadcast throughout the whole world, chess fans from all over the world follow the two masters' moves and follow each other's steps. But when Bob finally trudged through the night to fulfill his long-cherished wish, he found himself at the dawn of victory.
This film is a bit like an elegy about people and times. Regarding people, it is embarrassing. There is always a similar path to the disillusionment of genius-extreme sensitivity, thoughtfulness, and the confusion of life caused by over-focused chess game. The American Bob has always been like the Batman in Gu Long's works, with tricks, behaviors, and thinking, and he doesn't possess ordinary human logic. But the genius is never a master, and he can't be as cool as Chu Liuxiang. As he squeezed more and more of the part of himself as an ordinary person, the sharper the part of genius, and the softness of ordinary life was finally completely lost.
The most exciting thing in the film is the 12 final games of chess. The atmosphere is exquisitely portrayed, dripping water can be heard, nasal breath can be heard, the click of the film machine can be heard...The fine sound expresses the high level of tranquility that stimulates the nerves. This kind of stillness, like a deep lake with immense pressure, oppresses the brain and eardrum of a chess player, like the hum of the tip of a sword. The sixth game, which determines the direction of the victory or defeat, is still defined by the world chess circle as the most fascinating fight to date. After a lifetime, the wonderful existence of the masters is on the chessboard, not in life.
However, no matter how sharp a chess player is, he still cannot surpass universal cognition. Two master chess players, they are playing chess, and they are also played by others. Everyone lives in their own time and space, is required by the current situation, by the needs of public opinion and public opinion, and is subdued by the world of their own imagination. Business as usual is a world of manipulation and manipulation. The chessboard competition, which the US President and Secretary of State are all paying attention to, has long exceeded the burden of the chess pieces themselves. Playing "on behalf of the United States", Bob recognized the Soviet Union and the Soviets' chess based on American public opinion during the Cold War, and kept imagining that the surroundings were all KGB surveillance and conspiracy. After the war of the century, Bob's spiritual world gradually disintegrated. He turned to believe that the US government was manipulating and monitoring his life, and would no longer go to war and disappear into the vast sea of people. In the end, he was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of wandering...
This was a wise war between American geniuses and Soviet masters. At the end of the end of the song, the end of a generation of wizards is not only embarrassing, but its inverted outlook on life and world, from believing in the United States to spurning the United States, is full of unfreedom that is destined to be destined for life no matter how struggling. This kind of spiritual inability to be free, no matter how highly developed the thinking is under any system, still presents itself as the shackles of human eternal sadness. It is not because of wisdom, not because of the slightest pity of emotion, because it is a master, and there is still a glass top that he cannot escape.
The film has been portraying the quirkiness of genius, the extreme sensitivity to things around him, the skepticism and negation of everything around him. It is said that every step of chess after the 40th move is like a supercomputer and requires a raging CPU. I wonder whether this high-speed extraction of human intelligence and a brain stimulates 80% of the dormant in the legend, triggering a series of unrecognizable changes in the biological chain? Between IQ and EQ, genius represents the confusion derived from the spire of human beings. ,lonely.
Unlike the intelligent heroes and weirdos that other Hollywood films always try to describe, the film does not show any likable or sympathetic part of the protagonist from beginning to end. It is only responsible for showing, not emotional. For example, Bob's calculation and care about playing money, he has no emotional cognition of all assistants and coaches. It can be said that the film is very indifferent to the "emotional" part, just like the genius himself, restraining everything in the deep end of the cerebral cortex.
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