Sean Penn is great

Jaclyn 2022-03-23 09:02:47

I watched the first half of the movie "The Professor and the Madman" on the plane, and watched the second half at the hotel in the evening.

The whole film gives people the same shock, deep, heavy, moving, and infinite aftertaste as watching "The Shawshank Redemption". It stands to reason that movies about how "Oxford English Dictionary" came into being are usually boring, but this film is very well handled, the story line is well blended, there is no procrastination or showmanship, just like editing the Oxford English Dictionary process. , rigorous and solemn and faithful to the heart. The lines are also very beautiful, and the part where Dr. Murray and Dr. Miner are walking and chatting on the lawn in the prison cell is just too classic, it is two poets. For people with rich hearts, they not only need to complete the redemption of human nature, but more importantly, they need to be satisfied and recognized in the spiritual world.

The acting by Mel Gibson and Sean Penn is amazing, especially Sean Penn (you didn't know him until you saw the movie), it's so real that you think he's the one suffering from mental illness, really want to find him again Check out his other movies.

The performance of the actors I saw in this movie completely overwhelmed the domestic actors who I thought were perfect in their acting skills recently.

Mel Gibson's style feels like he can play Marx directly. Hahaha.

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Extended Reading
  • Kieran 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Originally read in 2014. From "Let us begin at aardvark and never stop until we reach zymurgy" to "Sometimes when we push away, that is when we most needed to be resisted". If love...then what? To have someone to share that ecstasy found in words. Now I know what awaits me.

  • Pauline 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    From the "Dictionary" and "The Book of the Boat" to this OED editor "Legend", I really have no resistance to this movie. Behind the turmoil of the great era, the dictionaries loaded with national traditions are no longer shelved, penetrating the nostalgia of generations, and spanning historical time and space. Will we still be touched by a piece of sweet fragrance? Of course, what is intensively presented on the screen are those editors who have been forgotten or even unknown. Their bright heads and perseverance, resistance or silence, in today’s context are more like an interpretation of the "old world" civilization. The lyrical elegy that is spread by the fire, the tune is always revolving with the phrase "It lives on". I couldn't help thinking of Lu Lao Shenxian and the "English-Chinese Dictionary", as well as the dictionary editors who raced against time day and night.

The Professor and the Madman quotes

  • Dr. William Chester Minor: It's freedom, Mrs. Merrett. I can fly out of this place on the backs of books. I've gone to the end of the world on the wings of words... . When I read, no one is after me. When I read, I am the one who is chasing--chasing after God.

  • Dr. William Chester Minor: Have you gotten to the "I's" by now? I had some to add to your words. But I can't seem to... I can't seem to find my pens.