There is a sentence in the movie that roughly means this: what matters is not what is at the end of the road, what matters is the people and things you meet along the way. This is probably the overall impression the movie left on me.
Vincent, an ambitious dreamer. He wants to build a fiber-optic cable from Kansas to New Jersey that will speed up transactions to 16 milliseconds. He will tell stories to attract huge investors to pay for his idea; he can lure his genius relative Anton out of the high-rise buildings on Wall Street and accompany him to start this huge project under the pressure of retaliation by his former boss; The best time to give up the treatment of gastric cancer can be unswerving, but also to provoke this main beam that is dominated by him and must not fall because of him. He has talents, dreams, ambitions, action and motivation, a sense of responsibility, a sense of mission, and a sense of powerlessness that everyone in real life is dominated by fate.
Anton, a genius who hides ingenuity. From the beginning to the end of the film, many of the turning points are completed by Anton. The Hummingbird project is mainly divided into two parts, setting up the route and speeding up the technology. In the process of setting up the route, Chinese Center encountered many difficulties, such as the issue of land ownership, the reality of ecological resource protection, the difficulty of traversing mountains and mountains, the huge gap between religious ideology, the destruction of business opponents, and the human nature. greed and desire. But for Anton, his difficulty is a technical problem in the true sense, a psychological one that dwarfs his nature. Anton is a brilliant genius, a programmer in the top exchanges on Wall Street, with a lovely daughter and a stable life. However, his talent and ideas make him feel that the work of patching holes is not challenging, and his lonely personality makes it difficult for him to find his own peace in the noisy city. So when Vincent finds him, I believe he can't hold back his excitement. I quit a stable job, went to a hotel in the deep mountains, closed the door and pulled the curtains. I was overwhelmed by the fear of being threatened by my former boss, and I was spurred by the pressure to reduce 1 millisecond. Difficulties exist objectively, but geniuses are born to solve difficulties. Especially when he was in prison, the Hummingbird plan failed, and Vincent collapsed and was terminally ill, it was still this genius who solved problems in his own way, guarded others, and looked at the world.
This story is not a biography of a successful inspirational character that I have seen before, nor is it a cool script of Zuckerberg, who was played by Eisenberg, who grew up against the wind and the last winner in life. A big dream, a challenging process...and a failed ending. Are you familiar with it? Yep, that's the realism of most of our lives and lives.
At the end of the movie, Vincent and Anton are sitting in the granary, and it's pouring rain outside. I don't know what the terminally ill Vincent is thinking, maybe he has regrets, maybe there are regrets, maybe he is also satisfied and moved. Are we not? How should life be spent? How will life be spent? What do you gain in life and what do you lose? Which choices are good and which are wrong? No one can answer, and you may not be able to say it well yourself. But what can you do, the road is there, you will continue to move forward, won't you?
PS1: So in the end, the Asian Chinese genius won, right? Ha ha:)
PS2: Venture capital is a matter of taking big risks and making big money. A wrong decision can be locked up from the beginning to the end, thus losing money to bankruptcy. Not only in areas that I don’t know very well, but also in areas I know very well.
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