Happiness on a whim!

Brandy 2022-01-10 08:02:10

At noon today, I opened Tao Piao Piao, and I saw the "Professor and the Madman", so I bought a ticket. I believe this is a kind of fate. The six words "Adapted from Real Events" reminds me of the "Genius Catcher", "Captain Sally", "Blood War Hacksaw Ridge" that I watched with Icebear two or three years ago, and even earlier when I was sitting in front of the computer. "Imitation Game", "Theory of Everything", "Beautiful Mind". It turns out that biographical movies are the best for me!

Back to the movie, this is a story about the compilation of the Oxford dictionary. The editor-in-chief James Murray is a man who dropped out of school at the age of 14, but is proficient in multiple languages ​​and dialects. He has a wife Ada who loves him and supports him, and a few lovely children; William Minor is a captain and surgeon in the US military. He was imprisoned in a mental hospital after he killed innocent passersby by mistake.

The movie opens with Minor holding a gun in the street and shooting a passerby because of misidentification. The poor man left behind a woman Eliza who lost her husband and six children who lost their fathers. Minor is a schizophrenic patient. When it comes to schizophrenia, I think of John Nash, but the biggest difference between them is that Minor killed someone.

I have always had a negative attitude towards the murder of mental patients. In the face of the incidents of mental patients hurting and hurting people in society, I always look at the problem from the perspective of the victim: how innocent the victim is and how unfortunate his family is. The prisoner and his guardian should be condemned and punished! But today, when I stand in Minor's perspective, I think: Anyone with a conscience should be extremely miserable when he realizes that he has made an irreparable mistake. When Minor first met Eliza, he looked cowardly and painful, and I thought he deserved it. When he said that everything he belonged to Eliza, when he learned of Eliza’s affection and fell into madness, when he realized that he had killed her husband again in Eliza’s heart and collapsed to his palace. , I will feel sorry for him. Maybe after today I see mental patients hurting people again, and I will have some new perspectives. Should the victim continue to communicate with the victim and his family? The latter should choose to forgive or continue to hate. All this is very far away to me at the moment, and I dare not draw conclusions for either side.

There was a scene in the film that impressed me. It should be the second time Eliza gave Minor a book. When Minor asked her to read for a while, Eliza turned his head and left. I take it for granted that Eliza hasn't forgiven Minor, and doesn't want to talk to him too much. This shows that I am superficial. Minor saw that Eliza was illiterate and offered to teach her to read, so that she could teach the children to read.

He said:

Standing on the spine of the book, I leap over this wall;

With the wings of words, I reached the top of the world.

There is no chasing after reading only.

When reading, I am chasing, following in the footsteps of God.

I fly out of this place on the backs of books.

I've got to the ends of the earth on the wings of words.

When I read, no one is after me.

When I read, I'm the one who's chasing.

Chasing after God.

Harm, listen to your words, I also want to start reading!

Let’s talk about another male protagonist, James Murray. I think Murray is an obsessive-compulsive disorder. He wants to include all English vocabulary and its sources and evolution into the dictionary, but this will seriously slow down the progress, but I want to do it for me! But I don't have Murray's perseverance and hard work. Every time I want to do something perfectly, I often end up in a hurry-no wonder Murray can become the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Dictionary and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.

Seeing Murray's assistant collapsed because he couldn't find the 17th and 18th century documents that used the word "approve", I saw the one who set "grand goals" but was always defeated by small setbacks. Maybe I just lack a partner and supporter (no, obviously just lazy!

Minor's letter undoubtedly brought hope to Murray, and Murray even called him a miracle. The first time the two met was a scene that I liked very much: it only takes one look to understand what the other person is saying, and can divide the words into exactly where the other person wants. This is the so-called soulmate! This reminds me of quail. Since I met quail, my thinking has become wild. No one except quail can understand it in seconds. When two people get together, there are always topics that can’t be laughed at. They can understand each other’s meaning. It was a pleasant chat.

Seeing Murray's opposition to the list of thanks for adding Monor to the first volume of the dictionary, and that he tried his best to get Minor to leave the mental hospital and regain his freedom, and even went to Downing Street to find Winston Churchill (of course I think It is not very realistic to put it now, how can leaders be so easy to see). And Minor held Murray's hand tightly when he walked out of the mental hospital to take a photo, for fear of him leaving. I was moved by the great friendship between them, so good!

I remembered the second part of "BJ Singles Diary". Colin played Mr. Darcy and traveled all over the world to prove the innocence of the heroine Jones. Eventually Jones left the place where she was being held, but Darcy was silent about what he had done. talk. The greatness of the relationship is great, I can do everything for you in obscurity, just because I love you. Put it on Murray and Minor, it should be like a mountain and flowing water. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo so good to cry?

Let's talk about the dean of the mental hospital. At the beginning, he has always been positive and optimistic about Minor, trying his best to meet Minor's needs and paying close attention to his condition. In my opinion, he is a very good doctor, and he always has hope for his patients and does not give up. But why did he become a villain later, just because of improper treatment methods made Minor stiff, but this was also approved by Minor in advance! In any case, I still support the doctor. Whether it is treating Minor or unwilling to release Minor to worry about him harming others, in my opinion, it is a question that doctors should consider.

Finally, I want to talk about Murray's wife Ada. Because Murray wanted to participate in the compilation of the Oxford dictionary, the family had to give up their comfortable life in Scotland and move to Oxford. Ada has always supported and trusted Murray. When she heard that Murray was resigning as editor-in-chief because of the Minor, she stood up and said to the delegation: "I beg you not to punish them because of human nature." Look at Aline in "Genius Catcher" again, because of the writer. Boyfriend Thomas and editor Max are too close and feel jealous, you can compare Ada's open-mindedness. It always feels weird, although I can understand both of them, I don't know what kind of person I will be. But I admire those wives who are willing to support their husbands to help their friends, such as Deng Yingchao and Zhou Enlai. Deng never complained about the behavior of subsidizing his brother’s family with income for several years.

I said so much before I knew it, and the code word was coded for nearly two hours. I can't tell whether this is a post-reading story or a retelling of the plot (I am poisonous), but I have always been addicted to writing recently. Maybe it has something to do with turning over lofter yesterday and I was very emotional. I don't know how I will feel when I look at the text written today in a few years' time?

2019.12.24

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

    The sympathetic genius friendship in the process of compiling the Oxford Dictionary, the story is not smooth enough.

  • Jovanny 2022-03-20 09:02:22

    The tears are very personal, and after such private tears are precisely hit every minute of the movie, apart from being unable to make a rational judgment on the quality of the movie anymore, I cry so much in the theater that I don’t want the image... Miner tried to teach Eli Na was literate, and when she said "That's freedom!", I started crying... For me, who was lonely and clumsy in childhood, who was digested by reading, and who was inseparable from writing work as an adult, all works on language and writing All touched me. They have nothing to do with earning a living or fame. The so-called shifting class is my salvation, and I entrust them to the entrance of heaven.

The Professor and the Madman quotes

  • James Murray: Who's she?

    Dr. William Chester Minor: The impossible.

    James Murray: The more impossible, the greater the love.

    Dr. William Chester Minor: Do you truly believe that? My heart is so sick.

    James Murray: Well... what I know of love is that the sickness often becomes the cure.

  • Ada Murray: Sometimes when we push away, that is when we most need to be resisted.