Li An is like a child in the emperor's new clothes, always piercing layers of window paper. From the "Wedding Banquet" and "Brokeback Mountain" in the early years, to the current "Halftime Quiet", all the emotions that were hidden in private were put on the screen. "It's just for the oil", "Have weapons of mass destruction been found?" What a familiar dialogue rhetoric, the people's attitude towards soldiers that seems to be enthusiastic, but is actually a little contemptuous, familiar? We can feel these emotions, but we have never faced them, but they were adapted from novels by Ang Lee.
Ang Lee is very good at filming complex and contradictory emotions, and almost every film of his is based on contradictory and complex emotions. In "Halftime Quiet", the attitude towards soldiers varies from class to class but tends to be the same.
The wealthy class (rich businessmen and female stars in the back of the whole process) - soldiers can honor me, they are tools that may make money for me
White-collar staff - who are the soldiers? It doesn't matter, it's just my job. The headache medicine that appeared at the beginning of the film was also the manager who saw Lynn entering the boss's office, and only thought of helping him find it.
The lower-level staff—hehe, are the soldiers so awesome, are they worth it?
- Good salary to be a soldier, better than I am now, thinking about becoming a
football player - Curious, really kills, so cool
cheerleading beauty - Oh soldier is great, I really want to be with you forever, I'm kind Yes, why don't you kill people? ; This is also a character who deceives himself the most in the film.
And that's the group of people, at a football game where the midfield praised the soldiers' performance.
Lynn's sister said that her family was very strange. In this war-fighting family, her father believed that the war was extremely right and honorable, and her mother did not dare to go against her father's wishes. Only her sister, who was a real and emotional person, would worry about the existence of the soldiers' relatives and her younger brother. Will leave him and try to persuade him not to return to the battlefield, questioning the war over and over again.
Yes, only my sister is questioning the war, and the rest of the film does not have the slightest understanding of the war, as if the war should have happened or not at all.
The title of this film is also very interesting. From "Halftime Quiet" to "Billy Lynn's Halftime War", for soldiers, the problems they have to face when they return to the motherland are no easier than the battlefield. The people of the motherland may still No enemy on the battlefield respects them.
How do soldiers view their "jobs"?
It's karma, it's a job that pays well in comparison, it's a desperate choice. It
's a "job"
even if you risk your life, it's not as great as this event is celebrated, and of course not many people really think they Great, including themselves, except for this event.
Ang Lee has made a very real film, not just technology.
View more about Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk reviews
