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Chapter 1638 About Love
Zhou Qingquan’s film review is long overdue.

"Before writing the film review, I did a lot of research. Here is the passage that shocked me the most: There are some things that you shouldn't ask for too much return. You shouldn't ask them to grow beautiful leaves and flowers, because they are roots. I remember that countless people spent their lives on perpetual motion machines over the centuries. Maybe we can say that they were just stupid people, but it was their exploration that ultimately led us to understand the laws of thermodynamics. They failed to tell future generations which path they should take, but they pointed out that some of those paths were dead ends.

I looked at the half-page paper in my hand, and every name on it was so sad. Perhaps we should always remember such people. The ancient Greek geometer Apollonius summarized the theory of conic sections, and 1,800 years later, the German astronomer Kepler applied it to the theory of planetary orbits.

Mathematician Galois founded group theory in 1831, and it was applied in physics more than a hundred years later.

Matrix theory, founded in 1860, was applied to quantum mechanics sixty years later.

Gauss spent his life exploring the practical applications of non-Euclidean geometry, but he died with regret. One hundred and seventy years later, this theory, which was useless at the time, and the tensor analysis theory developed from it became the core foundation of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

The world is silent, for these sad names, and for the thousands of years of loneliness behind these sad names.

In fact, the story of "The Heartbroken" is very simple. It tells the story of He Xi, a gifted mathematician who sacrificed everything for the results of his research, lived in seclusion for research, and paid his mother's 27-year buyout salary for publishing. However, his lifelong efforts were unknown to others, and no one knew what the research was for. His mother secretly put these books in the elementary school library and lied to He Xi that the books were sold. When the lie was exposed, He Xi went crazy. 150 years later, due to the collapse of the school building, He Xi's results were discovered by a scientist named He Xi years later, like a key to open the door to a great research that was being studied at the time.

Many people may think that this is a story about a genius, what does it have to do with us? The reason why this story touched me is that it is not as far away as we think. I remember a child who was admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then I heard that he suddenly had a mental breakdown. It was said that he was forced by the high housing prices in Zhonghai. His mother took him home, settled him, cultivated him, and recovered. He is very similar to the protagonist of the novel.

Yes, his last name is He, too. I thought he was the author. The movie expands the conflict between highly intelligent individuals and the pragmatism of the economic society into a very exciting story, but if it happens to us personally, it will be a fatal accident. I am not a histrionic personality. What I care about is how to minimize the losses caused by such accidents.

First of all, one must be strong physically and mentally. For those who are physically and mentally fragile, having talent is not a blessing from God, but a curse from fate. However, He Xi in the movie does not have a strong heart to protect himself from worldly harm.

The mathematician Galois, who was trying to kill himself, dueled with his love rival. Fortunately, he had stayed up all night the night before to record the results of his five years of mathematical research. Later generations used this information to create abstract algebra.

The scientists who followed him wanted to kill him a few more times, because he was cheated on. If he died a few years later, Einstein and Hawking would have saved a lot of trouble. Here's a chicken soup, like if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight, and if you are pierced by thousands of arrows, just be happy.

The same thing happened to He Xi. He just went crazy because he was not recognized for a moment. Therefore, his tragedy was doomed!

Second, admit your weaknesses and seek out people like you.

He Xi's fatal problem in the film is that he is introverted and has a high opinion of himself. Because he cannot communicate, he loses the opportunity to ask for help.

People are not omnipotent. Research results may be achieved alone, but their application must be promoted. If you discover a wonderful tool, which may be a device, an algorithm or even a theorem, and you can't use it, I can't use it, and the discoverer can't use it either, it doesn't matter. Promote it first, and you never know where it will be used.

The earliest special cement that hardened underwater was a shoddy product from Europe. It collapsed before the bridge was completed. It was improved by Americans and used to build canals to connect the five Great Lakes. I remember that a company once applied for a patent, which was actually to graft the float valve in the toilet tank onto the water heater, and it also won an award. Even some patents, ordinary people will have a feeling, and I will have the same feeling. This is not an illusion, but it often tells us a truth, sometimes thinking and doing are two different things.

In the movie, the most direct trigger for He Xi to go crazy is that the results cannot be applied, but in my opinion, the key is not whether it can be applied, but the lack of recognition and support. Many people think that the phenomenon of academics flattering each other is disgusting, but this is often a last resort.

It is human nature to exclude those who are different from us. We ordinary people certainly have no obligation to understand geniuses, and of course we don’t have the ability to do so. The few people who can understand each other can only stick together to keep each other warm and survive together.

The same is true for scientists. If a technology is kept to itself, it is conceivable that it will be difficult to promote it widely.

Maybe you will say that He Xi tried it, but the teacher and the school did not agree, but are these people the only ones?

He Xi did not step out of his comfort zone. He did not think about other channels, but just got stuck on a single issue.

So the result of working alone is still the same profound theory, but his channels are limited, so how can he let everyone know his theory?
There is no channel to even know, let alone agree?
Again, no matter how great you are, don't be impatient. Great but tragic people often live too short. If Semmelweis (the one who advocated hand washing before surgery) had lived one more year, he would have seen Pasteur pioneer bacteriology and his theoretical conception would have had a basis.

Hedy Lamarr was much luckier. Her files were not declassified until she was 83. If she had not lived long enough, she would have been buried as a Hollywood stripper instead of the mother of CDMA. Let's look at the evolution of LCD screens in history. Liquid crystal was discovered by humans in 1888, and it was not until 1961 that the United States put it into practical use. At that time, RCA was determined to use liquid crystal to make TV screens, but it was unsuccessful and finally gave up the technology.

Xiao Ri Zi Company took over and widely used it in small display screens such as electronic watches and calculators. It was not until the 90s that large-screen TVs were introduced. However, it was later surpassed by the large LCD screens of South Korea and China. Therefore, a single LCD screen has undergone continuous improvements by hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of technicians in several countries to form the current mature technology. If He Xi had not gone crazy, and insisted on writing Weibo, running a public account, and doing the teaching work that he particularly despised, it is very likely that the academic community would begin to accept his ideas in a dozen years, and he would even have many fans.

Of course, if He Xi was born in our time, perhaps everything would be different. At least he would not have to borrow that little money from his mother. In this age of science worship, in this information age, among so many people, there will always be like-minded people, and there will always be supporters who, even if they don't understand, are still impressed.

The world is more complex than human imagination, and the future is often unpredictable. So even though I am not a genius, the right way is to admit my ignorance and keep an open mind, allowing myself to be shattered by new ideas at any time and continue to grow. Here I quote a golden sentence from "U Can U Bibi": It doesn't matter if it breaks, because the cracks are where the light comes in.

Therefore, He Xi was not only born at the wrong time, but his tragedy was also closely related to his own character. The tragedy was already destined. Of course, he was great, but he was not strong enough! "

Some people also focus on telling the love that is ignored in the movie.

“Everyone talked about a lot of things, but strangely, no one seemed to interpret the love in the movie.

Speaking of love, when it comes to Jiang Xue and He Xi’s love, we have to mention Lao Kang!
The character of Lao Kang obviously represents the so-called "new rich", that is, those who have become the upper class at the time of change: they have endless money and elegant taste.

In fact, Lao Kang does not appear as a stereotyped second-generation rich villain. For traditional second-generation rich villains, they have no advantages other than the capital inherited from their parents, and can be overcome by the righteous protagonist through "effort" that everyone can do, that is, the half face that is open in the myth of the new rich. As long as the protagonist makes good use of the knowledge brought by his rebirth to become the king of the new rich and the trend-setter of the times, then the incompetent second-generation rich who uses material desires to attract his girlfriend will naturally fall apart.

But on the contrary, Lao Kang is not a stereotyped villain here. Instead, he is from the same school as the protagonist He Xi. Based on his capital, he not only expresses his desire to openly compete with He Xi when they first meet, but also has the same spiritual resonance with the character of Jiang Xue, and even speaks highly of He Xi's research, saying "it looks beautiful."

When pursuing Jiang Xue, he also decisively gave up his career to choose to accompany her. In fact, this is back to the question of how the so-called relationship between two people can be guaranteed: if there is someone who is stronger than you in all aspects, not only in social capital, but also in spiritual pursuits, how can you guarantee true love?

At the end of the story, Lao Mai comforts He Xi, saying that he and Lao Kang are in the same industry, and that he can be as successful as him if he works hard for a few years. However, this sentence itself implies that the relationship is not guaranteed: Jiang Xue's admiration for He Xi comes from He Xi's knowledge, but is this knowledge really irreplaceable? He Xi "can't raise his head" and "feels like a dwarf" when facing Lao Kang. This is not entirely due to being overwhelmed by money. In addition to money, is there any area in which He Xi can show his uniqueness in comparison with Lao Kang, so as to guarantee his true love with Jiang Xue?
From the perspective of the theory that love is the only thing, for He Xi, Jiang Xue is obviously not the most important to him, at least not as important as the hard work he has put in for more than ten years.

Because Jiang Xue gave him several chances, but he chose to give up.

You can say that he chose to give up because he loved Jiang Xue and thought he could not give her happiness. See, how great is that?

But in fact, this can only be said that He Xi does not understand Jiang Xue, or does not love Jiang Xue enough.

Some comments say that Jiang Xue does not love He Xi enough. Yes, love is mutual after all. Jiang Xue did better than many women nowadays. Is her choice wrong?
The answer is yes, love cannot be everything in life, and the same goes for scientific research.

But He Xi chose to give up love and regarded scientific research as the whole of his life. He buried his love with his own hands.

This is unfair to Jiang Xue!

We all know that without material support, the so-called individual is very illusory. Those who can flaunt spirituality do so because they already have material things.

The protagonist He Xi is deeply engaged in basic subject research. At least in the history of scientific and university development, this can be said to be not only a career undertaken by the bourgeoisie, but even by the upper class.

Jiang Xue gained spiritual satisfaction by liking He Xi. This spiritual satisfaction enabled her to gain confidence or self-esteem in the secular evaluation of "putting flowers in cow dung", but this spiritual satisfaction could not stand the test of time.

So she said to He Xi: Come find me when I get out and get myself established.

You know, you are the smartest person I have ever met. If you studied our major, you would have been successful. I mean it.

You have the ability. I think you are much better than Lao Kang.

It is conceivable that if the protagonist He Xi finally gave up useless research and chose to teach mathematics for postgraduate entrance examinations as the teacher advised, would Jiang Xue and He Xi's love continue? Obviously not. The only one who could satisfy Jiang Xue in the end was Lao Kang, the new rich man who had both economic and cultural capital and seemed perfect to the point of being unreal. The key to Jiang Xue's final success was of course the issue of gender.

Jiang Xue's choice, she also "arranged everything" for He Xi, calling him affectionately, but He Xi did not respond. And Jiang Xue also "always needed someone to comfort her", and finally chose Lao Kang. So the question here is, why did the protagonist He Xi fail to respond, and why did He Xi, who did not respond, eventually go crazy because of Lao Kang and Jiang Xue's love? "

I think there are certainly problems with He Xi's setting. This is a common problem in this type of science fiction film, that is, distorting the logic of reality to serve the plot design, and also saying that this is reality: the protagonist He Xi is a genius in basic subjects, and it is not so exaggerated that even the school does not recognize his research content.

Teacher Liu Qing, a mentor who can teach excellent students, does not even have the most basic academic resources and status. It can even be said that his papers must be published to be preserved. Since the library does not purchase them, he has to secretly put them in. A complete theoretical system that makes a cornerstone contribution to the grand unified theory actually only uses one book, and it was completed independently by a master's student...

This kind of distortion is nothing more than creating a story that a genius is hard to find in the secular world, persists despite difficulties, and ultimately benefits science with his selfless spirit. However, his personal life is very miserable, and he only depends on his mother. He calls for more attention to basic disciplines and scientists. You are so great.

The protagonist He Xi has no father and lives with his mother. Facing his overworked mother who has been laid off, He Xi is set to be powerless. He should have taken on the responsibility that he must bear as an adult without his father, but while he is unable to bear it, he also tries to ignore this responsibility that cannot be ignored. This entanglement is reflected in the constant appearance of "money to buy out his mother's 27 years of work experience."

It's not that Lao Kang is richer than He Xi so He Xi thinks he can't hold his head up, but that He Xi can't be independent and can't grow up, so he can't hold his head up. He is not a dwarf but a teenager, unable to rely on his mother, unable to be Jiang Xue's man (unable to respond to Jiang Xue's call to arrange a future for him), just like in front of Lao Mai who often pays the bills, He Xi is vulnerable.

The lingering burden of twenty-seven years of seniority, and the fact that he cannot become an adult, is "the only person in this world you don't have to feel guilty about is your mother." When Lao Kang took out a handkerchief on behalf of Jiang Xue to wipe his nose, He Xi's failure was completely declared, and this failure was a damage that could not be repaired even if He Xi became as successful as Lao Kang one day, so He Xi went crazy. "

(End of this chapter)