This film is like a strange-flavored bean, which makes people feel mixed emotions. The story begins with a dubious-sounding idea of the cousins: In order to improve the response time of high-frequency trading in milliseconds, they would build a 1,800-kilometer straight fiber-optic cable. It must be straight, as any detour is a waste of time that cannot be wasted. Sounds like a stupid plan. But they really implemented it, and the implementation force was overwhelming. Here, my brother Vince found investors, pulled up a dozen construction teams, and overcome all difficulties along the way: national parks that are not allowed to build, hard rocks that are impenetrable, Mormons who do not allow optical cables to pass through their land, frequent The spoiler's former boss...and cancer. Being diagnosed with stomach cancer, Vince concealed his condition and stuck to the battlefield. Over there, An Dongguan, a tech nerd with social phobia, racked his brains in the hotel room to increase the transmission time from the theoretical 17ms to 16ms to meet the investor's requirements. Miraculously, they succeeded. The final transfer time is within 16 ms. Sadly, they failed, and they failed miserably. Because the former boss, who is also a competitor, stumbled upon a paper that overcomes the difficulty of microwave transmission, and the application was successful. 11 milliseconds! The investor went bankrupt, Vince was sick in the hospital, and Anton was sent to prison by his former boss. Vince's last resort, "commercial investment insurance", also failed. In the end, it was Anton's plan to stay in the original company's backdoor program, which saved the two brothers from prison. If Anton was vicious enough, he could actually let the former boss close the door directly, but he was merciful and just begged the two brothers to be safe. (At that moment, I thought programmers were cool.) At the end of the film, Vince, who had broken his dream, asked: If we really conquer Wall Street, then what? Anton said: Destroy Wall Street and drink tea with the farmers who grow lemons. (A waiter once listened to Anton "disclosing" this magnificent plan and asked him contemptuously, what benefit do you end up doing to the lemon farmers in Latin America after all your troubles?) (At that moment , I really hope they can win) As long as the innovation is successful, it is a good story. Failure is a joke. The story of laying optical fibers is reminiscent of the man who laid the telephone lines on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to connect the two continents of Europe and America. He spent huge sums of money and failed four times, first being touted as a hero and then cursed as a liar. He finally succeeded, and his name will go down in history. If not, another Vince. From Jobs to Ren Zhengfei, there are always a few desperate moments in the stories of entrepreneurial legends. The final success involves hard work, genius, and luck. There is a fine line between heaven and hell, genius and lunatic. as a A person who does not have the courage to try, should be less ridiculed and more respectful to those "madmen". PS. This film also has a workplace healing function. Although fictional, it is filmed like "based on real events". The actors acted well. Especially suffering from cancer, just after hearing about his brother's arrest, he saw the microwave station built by the enemy. One by one, the unfortunate appearance of Jesse Eisenberg came into his mind. If you think about it when things go wrong, you will feel better. Could you be worse than him?
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