In fact, in addition to the commercial elements of "Hummingbird Project", there is also a philosophy about life, fast and slow.
Vincent and Anton, and the Wall Street they represent, and even most of the world,are pursuing speeds in their lives.
The standard of living continues to improve, people are eager to put everything in accordance with the standards of Moore's Law to ask for updates, five years ago the car's 0-100 acceleration level of 10 seconds everyone said enough, and now electric vehicles often increase the acceleration of 0-100 to 4 seconds, or even 2.1 seconds. But does the improvement of these data really solve most of the troubles of people's lives?
Not really.
A higher standard of living, a higher standard of living, people's desires are like a black hole of discontent. Our living conditions have changed dramatically compared to those of humanity 100 years ago. But we ask ourselves, is it really happier than human life was a hundred years ago? In order to make money, in order to complete the hummingbird project, Vincent knew that he had cancer but could let it go. And we know that his and Anton's dream is to have a big house in the quiet of the mountains and a happy life with his relatives.
However, even if the goal is achieved and no one is gone, how can the years be quiet?
In the film, Vincent and his friends attack the city and enter the heavens and the earth, and it seems that there is no obstacle that they cannot pass.
Until they met the Amish people who could face large sums of money and remain unmoved.
The Amish are a maverick group.
According to Baidu Encyclopedia, "Amish, a group of Protestant Anabaptist Mennonites in the United States and Ontario, Canada, are known for refusing modern facilities such as cars and electricity and living a simple life." Amish was a traditional, tightly religious organization of descendants of German-Swiss immigrants who lived in isolation. They do not join the military, do not receive social benefits, or any form of government assistance, and many do not buy insurance. ”
Two important concepts help to understand the everyday behavior of the Amish: the fear of "pride" and the reverence for "humility." Humility is often expressed as "obedience" and "surrender," perhaps more accurately understood as reluctance to express one's own assertions. The willingness to submit to God's will, and expressed as a group norm, is an outlier in American individualistic-centered culture. Anti-individualist tendencies are the starting point for the refusal to use labour-saving techniques so as not to rely on the help of neighbours; Similar practices also include the refusal of education above junior high school, especially theoretical studies, which is not helpful for daily farm life and only triggers personal or material ambitions. In American high school education, it is good to cultivate a sense of competition and self-reliance, which is diametrically opposed to amish values.
In the United States, a country on the wheels of a car, it is difficult to imagine the life of amish people traveling in horse-drawn carriages. Their country roads are much more rudimentary than the flat and wide roads commonly found in the United States. From time to time, farmers with big beards and small round hats from Western costume movies will drive the carriage and "click" on the road without hurrying. When the big trucks of delivery pass by them, they raise a great deal of dust, but they still keep their speed constant, and the horseshoe crumbles.
They are a special community independent of mainstream American society, and religious doctrine has a great influence on their lives. "No desire, no waste" is their credo, so the popular cars and electricity in modern society are still rejected by many Amish people who adhere to the traditional way of life. They used the most traditional handmade methods to strike iron, make inlaid wood crafts, hand-spinn cotton, make embroidered quilts, make cheese, and almost become living fossils of rural life in the 18th century. The sight of blacksmiths hand-made farm tools being dragged by horses and ploughing the vast land seems to have a sense of going back in time today, when large agricultural machinery has become widespread.
Outside the Amish houses under the blue sky, blue, black, and white clothes were dried on long clotheslines, fluttering in the wind. Like the average American family, the Ennos family would concentrate on washing clothes on a certain day of the week, but the difference was that they didn't have a washing machine to wash their clothes or a dryer to dry them directly. They wore extremely simple clothes, with men mostly collarless shirts and old suspender pants, while women wore blue or black robes that were unbuttoned and fixed with pins and the like, and generally wore white beanies on their heads—yes, the simplest white beanie often mentioned in Jane Austen's novels. When they go out, they may add a black prayer hat to the hat, tie it with a strap, and tie a knot under the chin.
It is precisely because of this particularity of the Amish that Vincent braved the rain during his illness to make an apology.
It is called the Hummingbird Program because the hummingbird flaps its wings once, which is 16 milliseconds.
Hummingbirds are also the only birds that can hover over flight. That is, the flight of hummingbirds can remain relatively stationary.
Anton wants to live in the mountains, afraid to fly, and it can be said that he is somehow Amish and yearns for a slow life.
However, he had to fight for his life to increase the speed of data transmission by 1 millisecond.
I want to live a little slower, but I have to do it faster.
Just as the world feels that the Amish people are conservative as primitive people, the Amish people feel that the world's hurried life is noisy.
This is undoubtedly a kind of irony.