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just a string of numbers
Frieda 2022-03-21 09:01:43
I don't know math, and I guess the director doesn't know much either XD. Translate it into philosophy: the series of numbers that the protagonist chases in the film is like the "truth" pursued in modernist hermeneutics, a constant (synchronic) explanatory structure that explains everything (the "pattern" in the film). ”), it’s hard to say whether it exists or not, but this film was made in 1998, and postmodernism has taken a more prestige position. The protagonist, the mathematician, has a series of setbacks in the process of pursuing this series of truth numbers, so he finally gave up Everything, a figure of Derrida emerges spontaneously, a person who deconstructs himself finally enjoys life (but there are also hints of free nihilism). God's name? Stock market tips? It's just 216 numbers. The filming is so contagious! You can feel the pain of the protagonist.
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Kobe 2022-04-21 09:01:48
Number mysticism, pretending to force the subject, the director must not understand mathematics. But the soundtrack and performances are great, and so is the editing, strongly stylized.
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Hiram 2022-01-26 08:15:19
1. Mathematics is the language of nature, 2. Things around us can be described by numbers, 3. There are patterns everywhere in nature. ——I love the mystic tone of Aronovsky, wondering what the material of this ghost's brain is? In the mechanisms and circuits he is thinking about, the combination of intelligence and sensibility, reason and lyricism can be so perfect and so harmonious. It seems that any material can find the most appropriate form of expression here.
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Maximillian Cohen: 11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
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Maximillian Cohen: Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been.