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The Hummingbird Project flies with wicked humour and nerdy tech talk

By Simon Ings

10 July 2019

The Hummingbird Project

Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård star as cousins with a plan

Belga Productions, Automatik, HanWay Films, Telefilm Canada

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Written and directed by Kim Nguyen

IT IS 2011, a couple of years after the Great Recession. Quantitative analyst Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and his programmer cousin Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) have found a way to steal a march on Wall Street: trading a millisecond ahead of the competition.

Where will they find this tiny, telling pinch of extra time? They plan to make it themselves, by stretching an optical fibre from Kansas City Internet Exchange to New…

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