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Today I’m writing a film review of the Chinese version of Inception, “The Untold Story”.

When I heard Chen Sicheng before, I thought of his scandals or that he was a talented commercial film director. Of course, we also remembered his success in the TV series Soldiers Assault.

It's rare that there are directors willing to shoot a film like "The Untold Story" which is unlikely to be a critical or box office success, will have no commercial or fame benefits, and will also run many censorship risks.

The movie tells the story of two mathematical geniuses competing in the field of encryption and decryption.

Our opponent was a mathematics professor who had joined the American cryptography team, and our side was Professor Yang’s Chinese disciple, Comrade Rong Jinzhen, who came from the Rong family in Jiangnan.

Rong Jinzhen is an autistic mathematical genius. Because he is an illegitimate child, he has been unpopular since childhood, so he lives in the Tongzhen Pear Garden with an old foreign man who is good at interpreting dreams.

After the old man passed away, he was taken in by his uncle who was the president of a university. Because he was a young genius, he was allowed to study mathematics. After graduation, he joined our code-breaking department, the mysterious 701.

His opponent, the core member of the American encryption team, was a foreign professor when he studied mathematics.

The movie revolves around encryption and decryption, and the contest between the master and the apprentice.

Rong Jinzhen had a characteristic, which was that he would dream every night and record his dreams. He often could not distinguish between dreams and reality, but he could always find inspiration from his dreams. He deciphered the Americans' secret messages many times and made great contributions.

At the end of the movie, the dreams of the master and the apprentice overlap, and he walks into each other's dreams. This ending is very interesting.

We have to understand that this movie covers a long period of time and involves the WG period, which are not easy to film.

Therefore, the focus of the movie is still on positive energy.

Comrade Rong Jinzhen exhausted all his efforts because he wanted to crack the code as quickly as possible. In fact, he died exhausted in the end.

This is a movie with positive energy and main theme.

But I want to write about something other than movies.

First of all, not everything can be simply explained by “He does it all for us.”

I have never doubted that Mr. Jin Yong loves us, but it is somewhat far-fetched to say that he exhausted his efforts to write 14 excellent martial arts novels because he loves us.

We all know how Jin Yong's father died.

Similarly, the movie also shows that during the WG period, Rong Jinzhen's family was treated as capitalists because of their background...

In fact, the film shows that they have done a lot of good things and helped many people.

Even if we don't consider the many contributions Rong Jinzhen made, just looking at his uncle and aunt, they also tried their best to protect Rong Jinzhen's boss and even performed surgery on him personally.

So, how should I put it? I am not saying that we are all a mob.

I'm just saying that the public doesn't seem as cute and worthy of love as you think.

In other words, sometimes those great people do great things, and the reason they are great is precisely that they still do it even for the mob, even for people who are not worthy of love.

This sentence is a bit difficult to understand, I wonder how many people can understand it.

This is the first different perspective. Of course, I fully understand why the movie was shot that way, because it can only be shot that way.

You always have to please the audience, but the audience's level is just that, what can you do?

Secondly, my other different point of view is that I think the way a mathematical genius solves the mystery is probably not as described in the movies.

Of course, I totally agree with the way the movie was shot because that’s the only way it could be shot.

You have to film it as a duel between two martial arts masters to make it effective and to attract people to watch it.

But we are writing a film review now, so I can speak my mind directly. I don’t need to worry about the effect or whether someone can understand it or not.

To be honest, encryption and decryption in real life is unlikely to be a two-person duel.

It is impossible for a foreign professor like Rong Jinzhen to design a code just to set a trap for his Chinese disciples.

From the perspective of the United States, the secret messages they need to guard against are not just from one country. Should they also guard against the former Soviet Union?

From our perspective, it is impossible for a country as big as ours to have only one genius. We know this, and the United States knows it even better.

If you really designed a code specifically based on Rong Jinzhen's thinking habits and conceptual flaws, what if it was deciphered by others?

Passwords are tools that are related to the information security of the United States. Can they be treated so lightly?

Of course, movies cannot be filmed like this. The final point of the movie is that life is a journey of constantly deciphering codes.

Is that really true?

Maybe most viewers would think so, but I believe that this could not be the idea of ​​a genius like Rong Jinzhen.

Of the true geniuses I have met in real life, almost none of them think the way described in the movies.

If we view life as a journey of cracking a code, what is it actually?

In fact, you just don't understand life.

Because the director knows that most people don't understand life, and for the sake of ratings, he has to let the geniuses lower the dimension with us so that everyone can understand.

Describing genius as fighting monsters and leveling up is like someone setting a level and you breaking it.

Everyone thinks that a genius is someone who stands on the same dimension as everyone else and tries to crack the code set by the test setter, just like the process of dealing with the teacher who sets the test when we were doing homework when we were young.

Actually, it’s not like that.

A genius is actually standing in a higher-dimensional world, so he can see through you at a glance.

That’s why there is that classic line in “The Godfather”: Can a person who sees through the essence of things in one second and a person who cannot see through the truth in his entire life have the same life?

Do you remember the analogy of Painted Newton that I talked about in the third part that day?

If you compress yourself into a two-dimensional creature, you live in a painting, and a gust of wind blows over, how can you possibly see the wrinkles in the picture?

You can't see it because you yourself are limited by the painting.

How do smart people describe complex problems? Do they describe the folds from the perspective of a scroll?

How is that possible?

If you read Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", what did he say?

The first sentence is: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

This is a typical example of a smart person describing a complex problem.

It is impossible to describe the Tao. Why? Because at this moment, you are in the Tao. The earth is in the Tao, the solar system is in the Tao, the universe is in the Tao, and all the theorems and formulas you know, including your language system, are in the Tao.

Just like the creature in the painted skin, all your knowledge is just part of the painting.

So Lao Tzu said at the beginning, "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." What does he mean?

He is just telling you that the painting exists and can be described, but it is impossible to describe the two-dimensional creature in the Painted Skin. If you must describe it, then what you describe is no longer the painting.

What's this?

This is a denial.

Lao Tzu can only tell you that Tao is not an elephant, not a tiger, not a cabbage, not a house. He can only tell you what Tao is not, he cannot tell you what Tao is.

This is how smart people express complex problems.

He can only tell you that answer is not A, answer is not B, and answer is not C. He cannot tell you what the answer is.

But in fact, he has already told you.

The prerequisite is that the person receiving the information must also be smart enough.

Only then can he understand what another smart person is saying.

Otherwise he would not understand, and he would ask foolishly, if it is not an elephant or a tiger, then what is it?

As soon as these words were uttered, his IQ was exposed.

In fact, when you read Buddhist scriptures, you have exactly the same feeling.

When Buddha wants to convey the highest level of message, the answer he gives you is always very strange, which is the sentence structure of Lao Tzu.

The Buddha said that Prajna Paramita is not Prajna Paramita, and that is why it is called Prajna Paramita.

Prajna Paramita, reach the other shore of wisdom.

For this most important topic, the Buddha does not give you a definite answer, so there is a joke in mythological novels that Laozi came out of seclusion and transformed the barbarians into Buddhas. It really feels like that.

There is no Laozi or Buddha. You feel like it is clearly the same person speaking.

Of course, if you see it more, you will understand that it is not the same person, but the highest wisdom is the same.

Just like what we said that day, once the painting was blown by the wind from a higher-dimensional world, it began to shake and wrinkle. The perception of the smartest two-dimensional creatures in the Painted Skin world was the same.

When you look at people who interpreted it later, their understanding was the same.

Wang Yangming said, "Do you see that flower? Do you see it?"

When you close your eyes, the flowers disappear; when you open your eyes, the flowers appear.

What did Tang Seng say?

Tang Seng said, flowers are not seen, flowers are illuminated.

See that the five aggregates are empty. Do you want Prajnaparamita? Do you want to see that flower?

The flower is not seen, it is illuminated.

You saw it, but Tang Seng didn’t tell you how to see it. He just told you that you couldn’t see it.

So Wang Yangming’s disciples didn’t understand. When Tang Seng was translating the scriptures, he said he couldn’t see. Why?

How did Wang Yangming answer?

He told his disciples, "What do you use to see? Use me to see, and I see."

Tang Seng does not have me. Tang Seng has let go of his ego, so naturally there is no seeing. So of course he translated the scriptures that way.

You see, you cannot have egoism. What Wang Yangming told you is still a negative sentence.

It’s the same as translating Buddhist scriptures with Tang Monk, preaching Buddhist scriptures with Buddha, and writing the Tao Te Ching with Lao Tzu.

It’s still the same sentence structure.

I could give you examples like this for seven days and seven nights but still not finish, whether it is Einstein in modern times or Professor Yang.

When smart people describe complex problems, you will see the same commonalities across thousands of years.

We humans know that these are different people from different historical periods. But if you change them to aliens and look at their descriptions of complex issues alone, you would think they are the same person who has been reincarnated countless times.

Because these sentence patterns are so similar, it's like the same person is speaking.

Therefore, the movie only interprets the life of a genius from the perspective of a mediocre person.

If we change our perspective, without considering the ratings or how many viewers can understand and accept it, the life of the genius in the play would probably be like this.

As a two-dimensional creature, he has been living in a painting. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, the picture wrinkled, and he smiled.

This is his life recorded in the world of Painted Skin.

Has he been here?

Hasn't he been here?

Is this important?
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