Where has this sentence been used in novels, so why not in movies?
Audiences who watch this film with the mentality of "what does this film tell us" are likely to be disappointed, because Ang Lee is still the same Ang Lee, and he is not going to make war films or anti-war films with a clear theme. Or the main theme film, but I hope to use the new technology of 120 frames to lead the audience into the psychology of Lynn's dilemma, which is entangled in life choices. It shows the contradictions and conflicts in people's subtle inner world, and it is a continuation of the previous thinking. Depicts the powerlessness of lonely individuals to communicate and understand each other.
The film revolves around Billy Lynn with a series of characters, each of whom can see a facet of Lynn according to their needs, but no one can or wants to truly understand Lynn as a whole, share his problems and frustrations .
Businessmen can see the "American spirit" embodied in Lynn and its commercial value, but the "things" and "spirits" embodied by someone and something are two different things from the subjective consciousness of that person or that. "Spiritual" does not make the suffering experienced by the client go away, nor does it directly heal the pain and trauma. Although businessmen appreciate Lynn and their class, they will not give them a lot of money to solve their worries because of this "appreciation". That's not why Ang Lee wants to criticize businessmen. Businessmen are profit-seeking, not philanthropists. It just shows one of the aspects of the conflict - the contradiction between money and ability - everyone wants to make a lot of money, but not Everyone can be Jack Ma. Under the mercenary conscription system in the United States, those who join the army are basically poor people struggling at the bottom of society, in order to improve their lives by participating in the war, in other words, they are directly exchanging their lives for money.
Sister Catherine should be one of the people who know Lynn the most. From her perspective, she indirectly experienced the cruelty and trauma Lynn experienced in the war, so she strengthened her anti-war stance. A plan to be a deserter was devised, hoping that Lynn would escape the death threat of the war and stay in this broken home to heal the family's wounds. But choosing to be a deserter means taking off the heroic halo above your head, which is a betrayal of your comrades and promises. Besides, what kind of job and way out can Lynn, who is not a soldier and incompetent, find? This fork in the road is to choose between family, life, career and honor.
The one-day relationship between Lynn and the cheerleader is, in my opinion, the weakest link in the script design, and it's distorted in my opinion to develop such a relationship within half an hour of the first meeting. , the addition of love elements seems to be full of traces of deliberate unnaturalness. Aside from the flaws, what I want to express behind this link will probably shatter the audience's view of love. The cheerleader beauty's admiration and admiration for Lynn is simply because he is the hero of media promotion, and she What I know about him is only the bright side of the brutal battle, and Lynn has no way of understanding her except for the ten-minute conversation. What Lynn likes about her is probably her appearance and enthusiasm. This love, which would have been the last straw that pushed Lynn to the deserter's direction, had the exact opposite effect at the last moment. When Lynn expressed her desire to elope with the cheerleading beauty before parting, the beauty surprised and said that you are America's great hero and savior. How could you escape? This link constitutes an unsolvable problem: to stay means to lose; to go to Iraq, who can guarantee how long this enthusiasm will burn, and whether the meeting in just a few hours can withstand the long distance separated by time and space?
This short vacation, short halftime performance, let Lynn see the cruelty of the world and life, is it not worse than the real war? In the Iraq war, at least all the comrades in arms were tied together with their lives. They love their neighbors as themselves, and only death can separate them. In the war of life, people and people are like solitary boats floating on the boundless sea. Only when the flow direction and speed are the same, and they happen to touch each other, can they travel together perfectly. Those who flow to different people will sooner or later go their separate ways, and they will go farther and farther with different speeds.
Billy Lynn just floated in the whirlpool of his many speed-limited flow choices, he wiped the muzzle, and made a wish to the invisible God above, saying that I want money, honor, life safety, and family affection. and love, but at the crossroads of reality he might have to leave some behind and declare war on the world to win others.
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