"Professor and the Madman" is strong in story and thought, and the characters are also vivid. The story takes place in the 19th century. It was an era when knowledge and culture were promoted, but science, ignorance, and barbarism were still fighting fiercely. The film revolves around the story that took place in the compilation of the Oxford Dictionary, allowing professors and lunatics to interact in knowledge and culture, and make knowledge and humanity echo each other. It was an era of unprecedented development in the United Kingdom. Of course, cultural knowledge also improved with the development of economy and society. The compilation of the Oxford Dictionary was based on the development of the language at that time, especially the enrichment, innovation and improvement of language in some literary works. Significant, but very arduous and hard work. This is not only about updating, defining, and sorting, but also about making history. People often put the two words "summary" and "improvement" together, and the movie makes the audience feel the summarization and improvement of the language and writing. The movie fully demonstrates the power of knowledge. The professor does not have the so-called formal academic qualifications, and the lunatic is a military doctor. They have profound knowledge in language and culture, so they meet and trigger a moving story. The doctor told the wife to read, and then she could teach her children by learning to read, so that they could find God. The fact that prisons open up the net of lunatics is essentially based on the face of knowledge. This is the energy of cultural knowledge. It is a weapon for mankind to defeat barbarism and ignorance, and a platform for people to help each other and improve together. No matter who has contributed to knowledge, it cannot be denied. I feel that the society represented by the movie still respects and admires knowledge, rather than just using knowledge as a tool for making money. The wonderful part of the movie is still around the lunatic, around the human nature. The madman killed someone by mistake and tried his best to make up for it with deep guilt. The wife gradually understood the reason and gradually improved her thinking and culture in her further contact with the madman. After witnessing the stupid and savage treatment results, the professor stepped forward and won the best result to deal with the lunatic. Professors and lunatics, the compilation of dictionaries and murders, are not very relevant things. The editor and director used the compilation of dictionaries as clues to present the story and the characters very vividly. Recently, I read an article by a German Sinologist saying that contemporary Chinese literature lacks humanity, which triggered our thinking. Looking at many of our current literary works, it seems that it is not to exaggerate the tradition of feudal ignorance, or is keen to show the style of consortium companies and bosses. There are only naked financial relations, only firm struggles and uncompromising confrontations. The characters depicted are very very good. Pretentious. Is there really something wrong with our perception of people? Don't jump up at once when encountering other people's criticism, be emotional, and calmly consider whether you have any problems in this area.
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