Music is divided into major and minor keys. Minor is the kind of low-energy music that goes all the way down and ends with sadness. This movie is undoubtedly a minor key. Because in the end it ended in failure. The overall development continues downward.
The beginning of the story is a powerful business idea. Exciting and imaginative. Geographically, it takes two days to drive a long distance, and it takes 16 milliseconds to complete a round trip. This number impresses investors. Then I found an engineering excavation contractor who was experienced and capable and was very excited about this project. Then the two people resigned without hesitation and established the engineering headquarters. From the first contract, they bought 90% of the real estate contract in a straight line. A total of 54 excavation teams started work at the same time. Such a vigorous start of entrepreneurship Up. I am looking forward to seeing this, and I feel that this idea and plan are too awesome.
Then enter the long second stage, how to complete this fantastic project. This part of the story is told using the method of burying landmines. This method is to show up the unavoidable and huge problems that will be encountered in advance, and then put them aside. You know that this thing will inevitably explode someday, but you don’t know when it will explode, and you don’t know when it will explode. Is there a way to solve it?
In the second part, two mines were buried at the beginning. The first is to know that to dig through the granite mountain range, this sounds like a huge difficulty. The second is 17 milliseconds, which is technically an insurmountable limit.
After a while, two new mines were buried. Landmines are an inevitable and major challenge that characters must face. The third mine is stomach cancer. This person chose not to treat stomach cancer, but continued to carry it and complete the project. The fourth landmine is the former female boss, who not only wants to disrupt their actions, but also launches her own signal tower solution. But at the beginning, our audience may not treat this female boss as the same thing, thinking that her best technicians have all gone, it must be nothing.
Next, facing the destruction of the former boss, many trivial things large and small, these small problems can eventually be solved. But the time bomb of the landmine cannot be solved, and it will explode sooner or later. Later, how to dig through the river was solved. By replacing one big bit with four small bits, the problem could be solved at four times the speed. The investor’s problem was also a minor one. Although they had doubts, they finally paid the final payment of $15 million. There was also the problem that some believers on the land were unwilling to sell the land use rights, which was solved by them using loopholes in the law.
The remaining hard bones to gnaw are the four mines. The first one is the problem of digging through the mountain. The drill bit was cut off, and there was a conflict with the engineering team, and it had to be re-purchased from Sweden. As a result, the entire project must not be completed on time.
The second 17 millisecond problem was finally solved, but the scientist was caught by the FBI in the next second.
The protagonist also had stomach cancer, which caused him to quit. Can't hold on any longer. All the contradictions erupted at the same time. The last one to knock him down was that the female boss competitor achieved a huge success of 11 milliseconds, and he collapsed mentally.
Both characters struggled as much as possible.
A universal way to buy insurance to get financial compensation. did not succeed. The other one uses a device that has been buried a long time ago to add a 20 millisecond delay to the female boss, in exchange for the opportunity to get out of prison.
But these are all vain struggles that cannot affect the overall situation. In the end, the protagonist lying on the hospital bed still admits that he lost.
When the story was written at this time, it was still a bit unacceptable for the audience, because the protagonist always wins at the end of the movie, so how he ends it has become a very important issue.
When I was studying FRM a few years ago, I read a well-known high-frequency trading paper, which talked about this real case. By building a straight line signal tower and wirelessly transmitting signals from the top of the building, this is true. thing. So from the beginning of this story, I was very interested. But I have been seeing this part and found that the main character's project has failed, and I am still a little confused. And it failed terribly, and finally achieved a speed of 15.7 milliseconds, while others were 11 milliseconds.
So from the perspective of the movie, how does it end? We saw that the end of the movie was OK, but not very good, so I deducted one point, mainly at the end.
The method used in the film is to pursue some spiritual sublimation and discuss some philosophical issues. Scientist Bald once again proposed the ability of neutrinos to pass through the earth in 9 milliseconds, which seems to indicate that there is other hope. The other is that the protagonist goes back to the believer’s farm somehow, telling him that you don’t have to worry about the speed of light signal under your feet. The last two people sat in the rain and imagined what would everything look like if they had only 16 milliseconds in their lives? This kind of seemingly philosophical reflection to end this story has no real meaning.
No matter how you say it, I think this is still a good story. I never thought that the real high-frequency trading arms race story could be made into such a worthy movie. This is still very good.
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