In fact, in addition to commercial elements, "Hummingbird Project" also has a kind of philosophical thinking about life, fast and slow.
Vincent and Anton, as well as Wall Street they represent, and even most people in the world, are pursuing an increase in speed in their lives.
The standard of living is constantly improving. People can’t wait to update everything in accordance with the standards of Moore’s Law. Five years ago, the 0-100 acceleration level of 10 seconds for cars is said to be sufficient. Now electric cars are easily accelerated by 0-100. Increase to within 4 seconds, or even 2.1 seconds. But does the improvement of these data really solve most of the troubles of people's lives?
not at all.
With a higher standard of living and a higher standard of living, people’s desires are like a black hole filled with dissatisfaction. Our living conditions have changed drastically from those of human beings 100 years ago. But we ask ourselves, is it really happier than human life was a hundred years ago? In order to make money and complete the Hummingbird Project, Vincent knows he has cancer but can let it go. And we know that his and Anton’s dream is to have a big quiet house in the mountains and live a happy life with their relatives.
However, even if the goal is achieved and the people are gone, how can the years be quiet?
In the film, Vincent and his friends conquer the city, go up to the earth, it seems that there is no obstacle that they can't get through.
Until they met the Amish who could face large sums of dollars but remained unmoved.
The Amish are a group of mavericks.
According to the introduction in Baidu Encyclopedia, "The Amish are a group of Protestant Anabaptist Mennonites in the United States and Ontario, Canada . They are famous for rejecting modern facilities such as cars and electricity and living a simple life. Ami It is a traditional and strict religious organization formed by descendants of German-Swiss immigrants and lives in isolation. They do not join the army, do not receive social welfare, or any form of government help, and many do not buy insurance."
Two important concepts help to understand the daily behavior of the Amish: the fear of "pride" and the admiration of "humility". Humility is usually expressed as "submission" and "commitment." Perhaps a more accurate understanding is reluctance to express self-assertion. The willingness to obey the will of God and express it as a group norm is an anomaly in the American individualistic-centered culture. Anti-individualism is the starting point for the following behaviors: refusal to use labor-saving techniques so as not to rely on the help of neighbors; not use electricity to avoid competition for purchasing goods that show status; not to take pictures to avoid personal or family vanity . A similar approach also includes rejecting education above junior high school, especially theoretical studies, which will not help daily farm life and will only trigger personal or material ambitions. In American high school education, it is a good thing to cultivate a sense of competition and self-reliance, which is diametrically opposed to the values of the Amish.
In the United States, a country with cars on wheels, it's hard to imagine the life of the Amish driving a carriage. Their country roads are much simpler than the generally flat and wide roads in the United States. From time to time, a farmer with a big beard and a small round hat from a western costume movie drove the carriage and drove by the road unhurriedly. When the delivery truck passes by them, it will raise a lot of dust, but they still keep their speed unchanged, and the hoofs are broken.
They are a special community independent of mainstream American society, and religious teachings have a great influence on their lives. "No desire, no waste" is their creed, so the popular cars and electricity in modern society are still abandoned by many Amish people who uphold the traditional lifestyle. They used the most traditional manual methods to strike iron, make inlaid wood crafts, hand-spun yarn to make cotton cloth, make embroidered quilts, and make cheese. They have almost become living fossils of rural life in the 18th century. The sight of farm tools crafted by blacksmiths being dragged by horses to farm on the vast land. Today, when large agricultural machinery has become popular, it looks like a step back in time.
Outside the Amish house under the blue sky, blue, black, and white clothes are basked on a long clothesline, dancing in the wind. Like ordinary American families, the Ennos family will wash their clothes on a certain day of the week, but the difference is that they do not have a washing machine to wash their clothes, nor do they have a dryer to dry the clothes directly. The clothes they wear are extremely simple. Most men wear collarless shirts and ancient suspenders, while women wear blue or black robes that are unbuttoned and secured with pins and the like. They usually wear white caps on their heads. Yes, it is the simplest white cap that is often mentioned in Jane Austen's novels. When going out, they might add a black prayer hat to this hat, tie it up with a belt, and tie a knot under the chin.
It is precisely because of the particularity of the Amish that Vincent went there in the rain, only to apologize.
It is called the Hummingbird Project because it takes 16 milliseconds for a hummingbird to wave its wings once.
The hummingbird is also the only bird that can hover and fly. In other words, the flight of the hummingbird can remain relatively static.
Anton wants to live in the mountains and is afraid of flying. It can be said that he is an Amish to some extent, longing for a slow life.
However, he must fight his life to increase the speed of data transmission by 1 millisecond.
I want a slower pace of life, but I have to do it faster.
Just as the world feels that the Amish people are as conservative as primitive people, the Amish people feel that the world's life is noisy in a hurry.
This is undoubtedly a kind of irony.
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