pretty good movie

Rudy 2022-11-22 18:36:39

Pretty good movie, one of the best I've seen recently. I don't want to make spoilers, so I won't say what the ending is here. This movie is wonderful. After I guessed the ending, I peeked at the ending a little bit, and I still barely guessed it right.

A quirky suspense based on my favorite mathematics and philosophy; starring Elijah Wood with pure blue eyes and John Hurt. Those two things are very attractive to me. (In fact, want to come to school from the beginning of mathematics is quite good, the original entrance has an impact to the pre-mathematics, but to dad saying how good math than girls, but the boys were forced to give up the results, now regrets.)


Movie Movie The head is switched very beautifully and neatly. Philosophy-math-music-plot all blend together to form a chaos. And in this chaos, this suspense film began.

And the best part is that I have read countless detective novels and movies since I was a child. Although I roughly guessed the murderer in front of me, and peeked at the ending without subtitles, the ending I thought I saw was not what I thought. About the same time, but after watching the entire film and knowing what exactly was said between the college student played by Elijah Wood and the professor played by John Hurt at the end, I found that everything was almost completely different from what I imagined. .

A good suspense film will give people a completely unexpected, serious but reasonable ending, and tell us where it all begins. This is such a good movie.

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So far, Guillermo Martinez has reached chapter 24 of The Oxford Murders, written in Spanish. I have some doubts that such a novel, although not bad, will not be highly praised by the "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times", "The Times Literary Supplement" and other media. With two chapters left to read, I'm frankly a little disappointed if it's worth spending an entire weekend on a novel like this.

Pick up the book again and read Chapter 25 and the epilogue. Dramatic! In chapter 25, I found out who the real killer of this case was; at the end, I learned the killer's motive. I am sure that the reviewers of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Times Literary Supplement read chapter 24 with the same opinion as I; it was not until the final twist that they hesitated. A thumbs-up rating is given.


"You never know how far a father will go for his child!" Remember this phrase! After reading this book, you will see what I mean.

And the most surprising thing is that simple things sometimes seem so complicated, and complex things are actually so simple. Are we complicating things? So all the simple things have become so complicated? The ending I came up with in the simplest way of guessing the ending of a detective novel is not the real ending. In this Oxford college known for its wisdom, surrounded by a group of high-IQ lunatics, surrounded by old houses and old bands , drama and a bunch of philosophical and mathematical theories, the real story of such a complex environment comes from the most basic human desires.

A good movie takes a point from beginning to end. The fundamental point here, the surprising thing, is not a mathematical theory, nor a philosophy, but a "butterfly theory." The previous "Butterfly Effect" used magical methods to prove the correctness of this theory, and this film seems to be the charm of mathematics, or to prove the philosophy inside the film-there is mathematics between everything. The rules of interpretation, and then finally discovered. . . . . . Numbers can also lie. Although the professor once completely denied the "butterfly theory" because it was just beautiful and unproven, as the plot progresses, even he himself has become one of the keys to proving this theory. Is it true that all these connections can be considered that there is indeed a connection between all things, and do these connections have a philosophical relationship with numbers?

"Serial Murder Case" actually only started with a very ordinary and ordinary sentence that the college students said at the beginning of the film, just to express the outlook on life and encouragement. This sentence is like the small wings of a butterfly gently flapping a series of cases. How did we notice this line at the beginning of the film? Our attention has been completely tied up with the string of mathematical ciphers, the philosophical thoughts that are implicitly connected to the plot.

Here's the brilliance. The professor's one sentence is completely different from the college student's one sentence breaking out of the professor's secret. College students are just pointing out the "facts" of a series of cases, but professors are pointing out the "truths" of the origin of these cases. At the end of the film, when college students learn the truth, they find that they thought they were pulling the other party out of the crime, but the thread in the other party's hand puts themselves in unknowable sins, or the college students A word of concern he said was like the wings of a butterfly that swept him and everyone around him into a hurricane, but he was completely unaware like the eye of a typhoon, rejoicing in love and being able to be so close to the professor Investigating serial cases.

The tragedy is here.

In exchange for anyone, who can be completely spared? Just because of the most common words.

Tomorrow I plan to go to the first book to borrow a book to read. Thanks to this movie, I have rekindled a strong interest in detective novels and book reviews.

"You never know how far a father will go for his child!"
This sentence seems to imply something. I always feel that there should be more film adaptations in the original book or plots that have no time to show. If anything, as I guessed, this sentence is also part of the butterfly effect.

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The Oxford Murders quotes

  • [last lines]

    Arthur Seldom: "The butterfly that flutters it's wings and causes a hurricane on the other side of the world." Sound familiar? Are you that butterfly, Martin?

  • Martin: I believe in the number pi.

    Arthur Seldom: I'm sorry, I didn't understand you. Uh, what was it you said you believed in?

    Martin: In the number pi, in the golden section, the Fibonacci series. The essence of nature is mathematical. There is a hidden meaning beneath reality. Things are organized following a model, a scheme, a logical series. Even the tiny snowflake includes a numerical basis in its structure, therefore, if we manage to discover the secret meaning of numbers, we will know the secret meaning of reality.