A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning 'The Joy of Stats' and its sequel, 'Tails You Win - The Science of Chance', this film takes viewers on a new rollercoaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology- all of which, under the bonnet, run on logic.
Wielding the same wit and wisdom, animation and gleeful nerdery as its predecessors, this film journeys from Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, sci-fi to supercomputers to tell the fascinating story of the quest for certainty and the fundamentals of sound reasoning itself.
Dave Cliff, professor of computer science and engineering at Bristol University, is no abstract theoretician. 15 years ago he combined logic and a bit of maths to write one of the first computer programs to outperform humans at trading stocks and shares. Giving away the software for free, he says, was not his most logical move...
With the help of 25 seven-year-olds, Professor Cliff creates, for the first time ever, a computer made entirely of children, running on nothing but logic. We also meet the world's brainiest whizz-kids, competing at the International Olympiad of Informatics in Brisbane, Australia.
'The Joy of Logic' also hails logic's all-time heroes: George Boole who moved logic beyond philosophy to mathematics; Bertrand Russell, who took 360+ pages but heroically proved that 1 + 1 = 2; Kurt Godel, who brought logic to its knees by demonstrating that some truths are unprovable; and Alan Turing, who, with what Cliff calls an 'almost exquisite paradox', was inspired by this huge setback to logic to conceive the computer.
Ultimately, the film asks, can humans really stay ahead? Could today's generation of logical computing machines be smarter than us? What does that tell us about our own brains, and just how 'logical' we really are...?
如果读过原著，可能就看不下去。主要展现了19世纪巴黎新闻业的虚假以及人不可能实现阶级跨越。最感动的是贵族夫人从始至终对Lucien的欣赏与爱慕。
纸醉金迷，追名逐利，高坛跌落的故事，这样的故事又数不胜数。圈子里的人卷在其中，你方唱罢我登场。吕西安获贵妇青睐，但想平步挤入巴黎上流圈也只是痴人说梦。影片进展了半小时，至此变得有趣，节奏也快了起来。侯爵夫人、小报主编、剧场唱衰者、造星演员、市侩出版商，逐渐登场，几方势力你来我往，搅动着城市的风云。小报盛行的年代，报纸不再开明，而是煽动意见，记者们成了语言的零售商。几句旁白，鞭辟入里。轮转印刷机使发行量倍增，广告商业蒸蒸日上，向读者们兜售他们本不需要的东西，几个镜头足以表现当时的风潮。影片侧写了媒体初兴，野蛮拉拢的时代，却又仿佛直指当下。片尾字幕，幻灭之后，寻找内在力量。
这让我突然又想起了《燃烧女子的肖像》来，二者都用到了维瓦尔第的四季小提琴协奏曲，区别在于烧女图是将全片的情绪积压在最后来以配乐的方式而爆发出来，但幻灭又不那么强烈，他更多的是以小提琴协奏曲的激烈情绪表达主角处境的剧烈震动，再然后带给观众较为饱满的情绪表达。两者用法完全不同，但这并不影响他们各自在配乐上的优秀。
改编比较大，对19世纪20年代巴黎各阶层社会氛围的还原是亮点，还算值得一看吧。
太平了，太冗长了，旁白太多了......
男主画上烟熏妆那个镜头我真的一个爆笑，导演感觉没有太多想象力，电影本身中规中矩，旁白过多甚至有偷懒的嫌疑，无奈巴尔扎克的故事太过扎实，两个半小时丝毫不觉冗长。有机会补个原著。
★★★★ 乡下文学小青年到巴黎大都市的体验生活来了，来时雄心壮志，去时看透炎凉，巴黎虽大，终不是自己的家。
Vincent真的好会选角色…虽然拍得不算太好，但巴尔扎克拍电影比读起来更有趣哈哈哈哈哈。最重要的是印证了那句话，确实，总有人写的东西会被留下，会被记住。
终究是一场游戏一场梦 中间很多新闻媒体和影评套用在今天依然现实
历史不过在周而复始
我不信十恶不赦的人会金盆洗手，也不信久经沙场的人最后才发现纹身。
不知天高地厚的年轻人闯巴黎，旁白很多，没有吸引人的演员，服装有质感。看了45分钟。
7分，太阳之下无新事，新闻行业从来都是这样一个运营规则，掌握了话语权，就掌握了操控的能力
世间皆主义，纷纷扰扰人惶惶。
还是好长...结构很好的电影，光影声色都很棒。历史之下，社会的暗流大概只换皮囊。
让法国人来拍这样足够宏大的名著 做到还原是没什么问题的 但是如果不处理再加上用旁白来推进剧情就很没有说服力 may一切都顺理成章但是一切都点到即止 《85年盛夏》的男主不错的
香港法国电影节2021
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改编比较大，对19世纪20年代巴黎各阶层社会氛围的还原是亮点，还算值得一看吧。
6分，太平铺直叙了，没有风格，常用的古典式拍法。
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