Ireland 1981. Nine-year-old Cáit counters the adversities of a life in poverty on the countryside with a quiet retreat into her own world: She is a sensitive observer of the beauty of the small things around her. When she is sent from her overwhelmed, often emotionally cold extended family to an older, childless couple during the holidays, she experiences deep affection, perhaps for the first time ever.
宁零
回复 :A witty, exhilarating and mind-expanding exploration of the word of our times - data - with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four's previous gleefully nerdy, award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats, Tails you Win - The Science of Chance and The Joy of Logic, this new high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry also tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.For Hannah Fry, the joy of data is all about spotting patterns. She's Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at UCL as well as being the presenter of the BBC series Trainspotting Live and City in the Sky, and she sees data as the essential bridge between two universes - the tangible, noisy, messy world that we see and experience, and the clean, ordered, elegant world of maths, where everything can be captured beautifully with equations.Along the way the film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why a herd of Wiltshire dairy cows are wearing pedometers, and uncovers the remarkable network map of Wikipedia. What's the mystery link between 'marmalade' and 'One Direction'?The Joy of Data also hails the giant contribution of Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electrical engineer who, in an attempt to solve the problem of noisy telephone lines, devised a way to digitise all information. It was Shannon, father of the 'bit', who singlehandedly launched the 'information age'. Meanwhile, the green lawns of Britain's National Physical Laboratory host a race between its young apprentices in order to demonstrate how and why data moves quickly and successfully around modern data networks. It's all thanks to the brilliant technique first invented there in the 1960s by Welshman Donald Davies - packet switching - without which there would be no internet as we know it.But what of the future, big data and artificial intelligence? Should we be worried by the pace of change, and what our own data could and should be used for? Ultimately, Fry concludes, data has empowered all of us. We must have machines at our side if we're to find patterns in the modern-day data deluge. But, Fry believes, regardless of AI and machine learning, it will always take us to find the meaning in them.
康净淳
回复 :影片描写刚从电影学院毕业的学生阿格涅什卡，雄心勃勃，立志拍一部以50年代劳动模范砖瓦工人布尔库特为主角的传记性记录片作为自己的毕业论文。为了弄清楚主人公是如何成为劳动模范，后来被控告判罪，而最终又恢复名誉的曲折传奇的一生，阿格涅什卡进行了大量的调查和资料的搜集，还访问了当时历史发生时的一些关键人物。最后她找到布尔科特的儿子，得知这位曾经被称为大理石人的英雄已经死了。就连公墓的墓碑上都没有留下布尔库特的名字。“在格但斯克造船厂工人骚动期间，布尔库特丧了命。人们再也找不到他的任何痕迹。从此，大理石人就成了一个幽灵。”影片的题材颇为大胆，收场对主人公命运的说明曾遭剪刀伺候。旨在通过一个国家宣传机器制造模范工人的神话，揭露了压制自由的体制对人性的摧残和对纯真百姓的欺骗，用纪录片的风格展现了一个冷酷的现实，让人联想到70年代的状况。本片导致瓦依达多年被禁止拍片，但在数年后仍然拍出了续集（铁人）。
李天华
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