A good movie, if you look closely, you will find the values reflected in it are very interesting. Maybe something the director conveyed unintentionally or intentionally.
Let’s talk about Professor Murray first. There is a foreshadowing in front of him. The professor has no diploma but can become an Oxford professor by his personal ability. "Individual ability" seems to be a stepping stone to a higher place. But knocking on this door is very accidental, and it has to happen to happen to have a chance to be ignited by "personal talent". This is what the film expresses. The professor had gray beard before the interview and was not young. So how did you make a living in the previous decades? The difference between the front and the back is only after being included in Oxford, and the person is still the same person, who is labeled as a professor in one day, and becomes synonymous with respect. Even the movie is named after it. The 50-year-old carp jumped the dragon gate? How many carp do not go with the flow for food, just jumping so hard, jumping for a lifetime. Alas, isn't this misleading the carp? The carp must first pray for the rules of employing talents without sticking to one pattern, and then the dragon gate will appear.
Besides, the madman Miner, this military doctor, because of the identification of mental illness, kills without paying for his life. Later, because of his "personal talent", he was recognized by everyone in the mental hospital. At the bottom, individuals with outstanding talents can still get preferential treatment from everyone. However, having a study room and appearing as an intellectual is a bit beyond my cognition—after all, he is a mentally ill person. To be so different, perhaps because he has the money to pay for it all?
As for knowledge, it is basically synonymous with "personal ability" in the film. However, knowledge is worthless in the face of love. Mina moved Eliza with her knowledge, and Eliza used common sense to recall Miner's abolished reason. Knowledge or common sense, which is more important? At a glance.
Therefore, the pursuit of knowledge is to prove personal ability. Personal ability can win stable social status and harvest love. And common sense is the cure for nerdiness.
Does knowledge bring security? not at all. The respected position of professor is shaky at any time, and he was almost kicked down several times: because he did not obey the baton of the market and power. In the end, he relied on higher power: leaping to the ranks to find Churchill, looking for the royal asylum in due time, stamping the seal, and finally securing his job and gaining a firm foothold.
And what is power? A thing that has always been fragrant in life, and tasteless when it expires. Of course, there are also people who have been known or left behind for many years because of their very capable use of power. Power is something that many, many people seek, and that is especially misunderstood.
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