It's getting dark below.
From the beginning of the story, the film has instilled a naked discourse hegemony system in the audience: with MIT and Harvard as symbols of knowledge as the background, solving mythical mathematical problems as the plot, it shows that a low-level heterogeneous genius has been absorbed into it. The process of being recognized as a scientific community.
As a low-level person, Will does not have any qualifications to receive psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, because he has no value. And his friends who grew up in a miserable environment with many psychological problems also have no value in psychotherapy, because they do not belong to this society, and they do not belong to the elite-oriented system of psychotherapy. However, as a mathematics genius, Will has therapeutic value and can become a person lying on Freud's sofa. Will not be recognized in the real world chooses a metaphysical world to escape, fortunately, this world is recognized by the elite.
The plot of the story is also absurd: a cleaner solves a mathematical problem. Perhaps Fermat in the 17th century and Ramanujan in the 19th century could accomplish certain achievements as a folk mathematics enthusiast, but in the 1990s when the scientific community was highly symbolic and systematic, the knowledge gap became a gap. Deeds can only be a joke like Minke who proved Goldbach’s conjecture: Today, when computers solve Fermat’s Last Theorem, enthusiasts who have not received system training have fundamentally blocked their way to the house. However, as a role setting, let's leave it alone.
Will’s girlfriend, Skyrna, who happened to meet by chance, was set as a Harvard student. Its abusive, open-minded, and nightclub performances are not so much a student of a famous school who became a capitalist elite paradise at the turn of the century. The ridiculous transplantation of a generation's resistance to upper-level discourse in the 1990s (the tribute to Ginsburg at the end of the film illustrates this point well). The love at first sight between the bottom of the society and the elite women is like the unbridled lust in a citizen's novel. It's just that the traditional myth of "getting rich overnight" has been changed into the form of "suddenly becoming a knowledge genius" (see the show of knowledge in the film). In a sense, Will’s talent and Skyrna’s inherited fortune belong to the same nature: the wealth of talent. As hegemonic knowledge replaces the position of money in this film, in the era of consumerism, people consume knowledge just like consuming dollars.
In the context of a consumerist society, the values of the film should naturally cater to the audience: it should be suitable for those Couch-Potatoes and street teenagers who come to the street theater with new acquaintance bar girls to watch the movie, and have nothing to do with true knowledge and elites. Ford.
Perhaps the plot of Chuck at the end of the film is the best footnote to the viewers of this movie: that talented guy Will has become an elite, and we are so happy for him. Then what? Let's go back and move bricks.
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