The film "Hummingbird Project" released by Fengting Xunshu Entertainment today shows a pair of brothers who are keen to innovate, and every millisecond they improve means great wealth.
The Hummingbird Project
the hummingbird project
A pair of brothers in New York Anton and Vinnie work in a securities company, Vinnie is a high-frequency trader, Anton is a programmer who designs and develops high-frequency trading, the core of high-frequency trading is trading speed, fast in and fast out, their order trading time is calculated in milliseconds, grab the first order to buy at the opening, and then there is a small profit to sell quickly, relying on trading volume can also become the king of Wall Street, therefore, how to occupy the fastest network speed is the focus of competition.
The brothers thought of a bold way to pull a straight optical fiber from Kansas to New York, the transmission time can exceed 17 milliseconds, which will be the fastest speed on Wall Street, the brothers' dream of wealth is realized, the hummingbird wings flap once the time is 17 milliseconds, the title of the film is derived.
After the brothers planned it, they resigned decisively, Vennie was responsible for pulling investment, finding construction teams, managing projects, and talking about compensation for land expropriation along the way, Anton was responsible for writing code, shortening the transmission time by another millisecond to meet the needs of investors, and a group of people with dreams began this complex and huge project construction.
The construction of a 1,800-kilometer-long underground fiber optic cable through various types of landforms, private territories, national parks, all kinds of difficulties and obstacles await the brothers, in addition to the original company's threat of obstruction and the microwave communication tower project competing with their optical fiber transmission. The leak of the house coincided with the overnight rain, Vinnie found out that he had stomach cancer, and Anton was threatened by the original company to report that he had stolen the company code.
Finally, there is an ideal disillusionment ending. On a breakthrough of 17 milliseconds to 16 milliseconds, the ultimate breakthrough is required. But the 11 milliseconds before the company made no sense. Life is so unreasonable.
The brothers went to a private farm that had not agreed to their crossing of the territory, and the farmer's reason was simple; it was God-given land, and the pursuit of speed did not make life better.
The brothers ultimately failed, but the factors in the film about dreams, persistence, entrepreneurship, capital, money, technology, career, family, and life are all worth remembering. The whole film is very informative and tightly paced, but the ending has some philosophical flavor.
"Hummingbird Project" has been launched on the Fengting Xun digital entertainment platform, welcome to watch on demand in the Fengting Xun offline store.