I finally found time to watch a movie in the past two days. Some time ago, I had nowhere to tell because I was in a low mood. I was uncomfortable for a long time. There was Mel Gibson in the introduction, so I clicked in and watched it. After reading it, I was deeply touched and planned to write down my feelings and opinions on this movie here. The film is mainly based on the compilation of the first Oxford Dictionaries, and revolves around the intersection of the twin storylines of two unrelated people in the 19th century, a Scottish linguistics professor and a retired military doctor from the American Civil War.
One is James Murray, a professor of linguistics at the University of Linguistics who has been self-taught since he was a child and has not received formal education. Because of an accidental opportunity and his love for language, he resigned from his original teaching profession and moved to Oxford with his family to participate in the first teaching. edition of the Oxford Dictionaries; one was Mina, a military doctor who had post-war post-traumatic stress and accidentally shot an innocent man due to insanity, and was later moved to England for incarceration for treatment. Two people who seem to be inseparable, but because of their love for language and admiration for knowledge, they have become lifelong best friends.
This film not only can feel the touching and real friendship, it also shows some deep and thought-provoking catalysts that promote the melting of social moral concepts - "Two Anti-Three Drums" "
Opposite: Anti-knowledge discrimination
As a "professor" who did not study in the formal university system and never obtained any degree, Murray was not well received by most intellectuals when he first came to Oxford, and they were always reluctant to believe that a person who just read a little more How can a book countryman and an out-of-towner with a hard-to-earth Scottish accent compare to their highly educated, thesis-studied Ph.D. However, it was this "Murano literate person" who they didn't think highly of, who came up with the idea of "delegating power to the people" and accelerated the completion of the dictionary by allowing native English speakers from all over the world to work together. This seems to give a deep slap in the face to the orthodoxly educated, learned but arrogant and defiant doctors. This is anti-knowledge discrimination felt as an audience perspective.
Secondly, after Murray received and published the first part of the dictionary, he took the dictionary to share with Dr. Miner, who contributed to the compilation of the dictionary. After learning about Miner's experience and his mental state, Murray never looked down on Dr. Miner. Instead, after several conversations, he felt that the two of them were in harmony with their souls and shared their love for knowledge, and became confidantes; People who feel smeared in their lexicon after Miner is a mentally ill murderer have the opposite idea. And this is anti-knowledge discrimination from the perspective of Professor Murray.
Second Anti: Anti-corruption System
The background of the story is England in the 19th century. The inhuman treatment suffered by Dr. Miner in prison clearly reflected the darkness of various departments under the British social system at that time. The British writer Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" also satirizes the miserable life of the working people caused by the decay of the upper system in this state. Miner murdered by mistake and was jailed for life for insanity. Those in charge of the prisons, or the doctors who treat the prisoners, torture them physically and mentally under the pretext of treating them. Dr. Miner was at least lucky, he met the confidant of his life, and finally escaped the prison cage with the help of Murray and returned to his country. But in the British society shrouded in the real blood-sucking haze at that time, how many people were tortured to death by mental and physical torture?
Three drums: encourage respect for knowledge, free reading, and love of language
Whether it's Professor Murray or Dr. Miner, I believe the most important thing that connects them is their love of language. Even though Dr. Murray was a genius, he could not do without reading a lot of books to build him to what he is today; and Dr. Miner, despite being eroded by the shadows brought by the war, never gave up on reading and reading. Knowledge attachment and a heart that loves knowledge.
Words are not just a symbol or an information tool. Its organic composition reflects the reflection of our soul and plays the notes of our inner emotions. At the same time, it is the product of our ideology, our thoughts, and our spirit, and it creates an invisible force to condense the human soul and compose a bizarre chapter of human civilization. As Dr. Miner put it:
"Madness gives us words."
In this movie, the professor is not actually a professor, and the lunatic is not actually a lunatic, but two people who love knowledge, language, and reading.
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