Before watching it, I knew that this was a story that ended in failure, and the ending was naturally not a happy comedy like a happy reunion, but it was inevitable. Dig a straight cable from New York to Kansas, the track goes straight through mountains, rivers, swamps and all other roadblocks, just to compete for that millisecond advantage, romantic, but with the certainty of failure, even if there is no spoiler, I feel that way.
Isn't it romantic, isn't it the greed and cruelty of capital operation and business competition behind it? Indeed, the author also criticized this through the mouth of the characters, but the criticism is not the motives of the two protagonists, but the cold and ruthless of the whole system. Among them, they are small, seemingly grand plans. They lead the excavation team across mountains and rivers to sign tens of millions of contracts. What they are fighting for is the progress of 17ms to 16ms that tens of millions of people are trying to complete, and the moment they reach the cliff. I just found out that there are always people, there are always people who can achieve a leap of 11ms in one step, the winners are always in the minority, and being eliminated is the normal state of life. There are so many victories in the film, because "the Spring and Autumn Period only records important things", no one will care how many people are buried in the torrent of history. So fortunately this flimsy-sounding cable-digging story failed, otherwise what's the point of it.
The movie actually wants to convey a lot, which more or less caused the plot to be a little confusing. Different people have different understandings of the theme, but what impressed me most was that it gave me a subtle feeling of "idealist destiny". 16 milliseconds is a flap of a hummingbird's wings, and it can also be an income of 500 million a year. But that's not what Vincent wants, what does he want, and to prove himself right like his father, like the butcher's son in Silent Resistance with a pantomime at heart? Maybe at first, but he's been like that along the way. Certainty, this kind of obsession, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm sure I want to accomplish this, even if it's the last thing in my life, this kind of attachment is something a pure idealist will have. What if I failed, I suddenly felt that at least I had experienced it. Besides, what is failure and what is success, does it depend on the definition in the secular sense? You can say that the transmission speed of 11ms and the great wealth it brings are success, and he can say that I am going to a place far away from these fools, fishing, fishing, writing code, watching the sunrise and sunset, with my family by my side, it's me The success in the heart, the Amish people also say that you modern people make everything too fast, fast is okay, can't you slow down and wait for the soul, how many thousands of dollars you give me, I don't have time to take care of you, just let me here Isn't it bad to keep a pure land? Vincent is actually a villain to the Amish, but I can't blame him. Digging the cable out of the ground at the end isn't the thing that strikes me the most, because I'm always drawn to people who go after something at all costs. That's why I like the social network of volume so much, that kind of "dream", that kind of courage to dream bigger. There are a lot of people on the road to building an entire social network empire, or any great thing, who are "villains" in a narrower sense, but there is always something I appreciate.
Talk back. I think he has a breakthrough in acting. This is the first time I see him partnering with someone else. He is not the nerd and has no sense of disobedience. The speed of speech is as fast as ever. I dreamed of tsn, and even thought that the speed of speech was faster than tsn. The last volume seen in theaters was Silent Resistance, where the character's need for his speech seemed to slow down. Fortunately, I've watched so many interviews with him, and I'm used to hearing it clearly without reading the subtitles. Entrepreneurship again, two roles, one true and one false, he dared to think twice, but Mark succeeded and Vincent failed. But Mark's success is a minority, and Mark's genius mind and opportunity are even more rare. There are a lot of "roadblocks" set up in the Hummingbird Project. The cancer section is indeed a bit deliberate, but fortunately, the performance is not bad. When he pressed the massage, he cried silently until he choked and cried, and I have empathy.
There is also E, the eldest brother of the fourth sister I love. It was the first time I really felt the resemblance between Simei and him when I watched it on the big screen. There are several scenes that are quite similar. The Mediterranean hairstyle can't hide the handsomeness of his three-dimensional silhouette, maybe I'm the only one who thinks so? The role of Anton was interesting after thinking about it. He can be "fast", but in the end he just wants a "slow" ending. He can easily slow down the stock exchange information transmission by 20 or even a full 80 milliseconds with one phone call, so in a sense he is indeed "dangerous", but he is not dangerous, his boss actually knows this, So she would say that Anton's brain is half idiot and half idiot, because she frames herself and others with worldly success. But what's the use, at the end of the movie, Vincent said quietly, okay, we bought Wall Street, what then?
"We set it on fire and took all the lemon farmers around the campfire to roast marshmallows."
This transition, as well as the slow downpour, made this commercial film more like a literary film. In fact, when I watched it, I sometimes couldn't tell what type of film it was, and it was a bit confusing, mixed with road-movie-like soundtracks and occasional inexplicable literature and art. Raindrops are slow motion, but light trails only take 16 milliseconds, 26 milliseconds and 100 years, what kind of life do you want.
The film explores the meaning of modern society. In fact, it is a bit depressing to watch, but the one combined with "exhilaration" has the meaning of "failure, at least experienced", with a layer of Sisyphus pushing stone. Uphill philosophical breath. We 're obsolete but we did it. 'We did it.' This sentence made me dream back to tsn again, but that time it was said by the horse himself, and that we does not necessarily include the other party. This Hispanic we has true feelings in it. If you fail, you have to continue to complete it. After seeing through the meaninglessness of all this, you are relieved. Vincent ended calmly saying that we lost everything, like he was determined to 'straight straight' at first. I have a subtle feeling that the plan to dig the cable had already become an "obsessed" in his mind, and stomach cancer made it even more solid, so when he was crazy and desperate with the electric drill, I suddenly remembered the strangeness of the soul. Those who are lost in obsessions in the brigade. Perhaps there is a fine line between belief and loss. Fortunately, he came out, although I don't want to think about what such a Vincent will do in the future.
The film is flawed, as well as the inevitable Chinese stereotypes, but the details are not bad, such as the momentary inspiration of E big tennis, such as the scene of being rolled on a stretcher to cheat insurance, which is funny and sad. The topic, at least made me think a lot, about finance, about technology, and those useless thoughts about meaning and fate.
And because "I" wanted to say too much, I moved the original short review into the film review.
It's a lot more messy than the movie, and there are a lot of private goods.
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