It features an invented language and no subtitles, but the gist of the story is clear enough, and well worth the rental. The Hummingbird Project imagines a small team of scientist-entrepreneurs trying to build an underground fibre-optic cable 1600 km from Kansas to New Jersey. The time it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings once will give them a billion-dollar edge on Wall Street. Even so, Nguyen does a great job balancing the technical and the emotional sides of his story; his last film, 2017’s Eye on Juliet, a romance featuring remote-control security robots, was lopsided in comparison. And there’s something refreshingly simple behind the idea of building a super-straight speed-of-light pipeline under the Appalachians to quicken commerce.

Source: National Post March 21, 2019 17:03 UTC