No one can really understand who

Enid 2022-04-22 07:01:56

Want to watch "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle"?
Who's what?
Billy Lynn, the midfielder.
Oh, Ang Lee's new film.
Yes, the fare is 200.
So expensive!
But only 5 theaters in the world can put 120 frames. (Note: located in New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei)
Look!

So we went to see this new technology movie whose name is not easy to remember. At ten o'clock in the evening, the cinema hall was full of people queuing for tickets, calling for friends, taking pictures, buying popcorn snacks, queuing for admission, and rushing to the opposite convenience store to buy water. Like something big is going to happen.

Go up to the second floor, turn left at the double number, and enter the Oriental Giant Screen Hall in sequence. This giant, which was only built in 2014, accommodates 1,058 seats in a space of more than 11,000 cubic meters. The screen was on, but there were no pre-roll commercials, and Billy Lynn quietly turned his back to the crowd during the fireworks. Near ten o'clock, I switched to Ang Lee, and briefly talked about the 120-frame technology used in this film, I hope the audience likes it. The tone is calm and the content simple.




Lights off, start. There is a psychological expectation of dizziness, but apart from the ear pain after wearing glasses for a long time, there is no actual discomfort (an example, for reference only). It's Kristen Stewart's face that needs to be adapted. It's smaller than I've seen anywhere else, and my nose is higher than I've seen anywhere else. It's still without makeup, how can it be so beautiful.

HD Needless to say. Similar to the experience of putting on contact lenses for the first time in a few years of myopia. I took time to think for a while in the movie. When I took pictures before, I always felt that the photos were not as cute as what I saw with my eyes. I wanted to record but I disliked recording. Have this trouble.

Along with HD comes true. Many movies have a cinematic feel, all from the real world but different from the real world. Either the colors are filtered out, or the lens wobbles from near and far. The perspective used in "Billy Lynn" is close to the daily perception, and the scenes are real and not built for the movie. With 120 frames, it is infinitely equivalent to my naked eye vision on the scene. Reality without any processing makes people feel that the real world is so attractive.



Before watching it, I learned that the audience's reputation for this movie is divided to a certain extent. After watching it, I gave it five stars without hesitation. Maybe it is not a commercial film, maybe it will make some viewers fall asleep in the middle, but for viewers who understand its spiritual core in their own way, it is a vast work that can be endlessly memorable.

There are two layers to the way I approach it. The first layer is that it answers who I am, where I came from, and where I am going. In a rapidly developing society, a society that has long been freed from material threats, we live in a society where we can define the answers to these three questions more autonomously than before, but at the same time, because of the vastness of space, we have never been more dazed and powerless.

Billy Lynn was originally the son of a stern father, the younger brother of a dear sister, and a young Texan with an uncertain future. He was punished by his father to enlist in the army and become a soldier in Iraq because of revenge on the man who abandoned his sister. He became an American hero because of a war video of rescuing the squad leader. He returned to China to accept the award and attended the press conference to participate in the performance. During this period, Billy was input with a lot of information, including the crushing of the team owner, the show of affection from the cheerleaders, the persuasion of his sister, and the contempt of the staff.

Joining the army was not Billy's voluntary choice, nor did he think about saving the squad leader (but rushed over out of instinct), and it was not his subjective wish to appear under various lights after returning to China. There are three things Billy really did: beat up the man who was sorry for his sister, fell in love with the beautiful team member who felt special, and finally told his sister in tears that he wanted to return to the battlefield and continue to be a soldier.

Among the three decisions, violence has a certain degree of justice, but in essence it is not the best way to solve the problem; the short-lived passion with the beautiful woman turned out to be just Billy's wishful thinking, and the other party just regarded him as patriotic. It's just a hero's masterpiece; and returning to the battlefield allows Billy to determine his identity, his nature, and the future he is willing to live for.

who I am? a soldier.
where am i from? The ignorant youth was born in Texas.
Where am I going? The battlefield, where there is a reason why I must return.

This is Billy Lynn in three dimensions, the most personal identity feature.

As for why Billy chose this, (a logic is not necessarily correct) it has to do with nature. There are a few clips in the movie to prove it. First, when the atmosphere was about to get out of control at the Iraqi suspect's house, it was Billy who rushed out to calm everyone down, thus avoiding a possible conflict involving civilians; ) Chatting under the tree, Billy's understanding of war is different from that of ordinary people in the dialogue; the third is that Billy successfully rescued the squad leader (only swiped once, not sure whether the fatal injury was before or after Billy rescued, although the squad leader finally Still dead, but if not rescued, the squad leader will end up dead after being captured by the other party, but he has to suffer before he dies, and his family will never see the body), fought a militant close-quarters and won, showing excellent performance combat capability.



The second layer is a bit sad to say, but it is the reality that the sooner you accept the better. Billy Lynn's midfield directly declared that no one can really understand who.

In ordinary life, it is difficult to highlight this point. In exchange for experiencing life and death and becoming the most popular hero in the United States, it will surface a lot. This conflict manifested in everyone around him from the moment Billy entered the house. Seeing him, his sister-in-law was obviously unable to classify him as a normal family member, and she talked endlessly about the honor and presence that Billy brought her, with respect and estrangement in her words and expressions; His sons were indecisive, and even if they were inclined towards the latter, they would not express clearly; my sister, the person in the family who had the best relationship with Billy, had also thrown out the mandatory options that Billy did not wish to return home from the army from the very beginning. Billy can't be denied.

Under this psychological distance, while his comrades were busy dealing with the stress problems brought by the role change, Billy met the eyes of a beautiful cheerleader and mistakenly thought that it was a soul that could resonate with him. A soulmate who can do everything without a word. It's just a pity that when he was dragged by this misunderstanding and could not listen to his sister's persuasion but wanted to run away with the girl, the girl's accident and denial made him see the truth. It turned out that she just liked to save the squad leader heroically and be a patriotic hero. His.

Can't blame the girl for being one-sided, she didn't have the time, the opportunity or the occasion to know the whole picture of Billy's soul. In fact, even Billy's sister, who had been with him for so long, lost her telepathy after being separated for a while. Maybe it was because she was too worried about Billy's safety, or because of self-blame, her sister failed to pay attention to Billy's true thoughts, and it wasn't until finally Billy confessed that he woke up.

Perhaps the real understanding requires 360 degrees without blind spots to know everything about the other party. It's just that it's not too difficult, but simply impossible. Man is destined to be alone, destined to seek the truth of the world alone, destined to write down the only answer to who I am, where I came from, and where I am going.

But there is optimism in this sad reality. When I was young, I had a favorite English song. The lyric maker in the playback software wrote in the prelude, we don't turn on the lights, we don't talk, we just laugh. I like this sentence very much, so I have kept it until now. After watching the movie, I turned it out of my mind. Maybe I like it because it means that we don't need to see each other clearly, and we don't need to hear each other. We It's good to feel each other's smiles when you are beside each other.

Then, know this place and live it later.




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Extended Reading
  • Yasmin 2022-03-31 08:01:02

    Billy Lynn's pain is shamelessly consumed by the masses, the family doesn't understand the producers, and there are all kinds of obscene sarcasm and provocation. Even the girl they like just loves their hero's title. Nobody cares what they go through on the battlefield. No matter how long the intermission is, it's just a lonely torment. Once you enter the military camp, you can't get out again. Maybe only death is the destination.

  • Dillan 2022-03-31 08:01:02

    Seeing the middle, I almost rushed out of the door with grief and anger. Some people risk their lives to go to the battlefield for a subsidy of 6,000 dollars, and some people spend tens of thousands of dollars just to grab a front row seat in a ball game. Soldiers face life and death and bombs on the battlefield every day, and the people of the country you defend, they only care if you are gay or not.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk quotes

  • Norm Oglesby: [from trailer] Your story Billy, no longer belongs to you. It's America story now.

  • [last lines]

    Dime: Seatbelts, ladies.