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Name: Billy Lynn
Age: 19
Gender: Virgin
Religion: No
Bad Deeds:
(1) Smashed my sister's fiance's car and was forced to join the army (Cause: My sister was disfigured in a car accident and her fiance abandoned her)
( 2) Indiscriminately operating military vehicles, resulting in punishment.
Deeds:
In the Iraq War in 2004, he heroically rescued the squad leader Mushroom in the confrontation with the holy believers, and performed close-range shooting and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. He was photographed by TV and became a national hero.
Love Story:
When transporting the body of the squad leader Mushroom back to China, he and his comrades from Class B were invited to participate in the rugby halftime performance, met the beautiful cheerleader Feishan, called each other and made out.
Personality Traits: Shy and
sincere , like to
fantasize
about being calm on the battlefield, sometimes a little impulsive in daily life.
Health: Persistent headaches during the break from the war, suspected PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
The movie shows a day when Billy and his B class mates are invited to a Thanksgiving football halftime show, with Billy in the middle Memories of the Iraqi battlefield and squad leader mushrooms.
This day was full of shows and dramas. The public, on the one hand, showed their sincere admiration for heroes, on the other hand, they didn't care, just watching the excitement and proving their political correctness. The media and investors use this psychology to promote and sell the value of selling heroes.
The memories are cruel, but true, because on the battlefield, all human relationships are simplified, and the essence of life begins to emerge - only the goal of survival, all actions become simple. Even heroic actions are not purposeful, just instinctive. He's just doing what he's supposed to do.
So Billy said, Be honored for the worst day on your life
No one but the empathetic cheerleader Feishan can understand Billy's true feelings, which makes him lonely. The surrounding reality appears false and absurd, even humiliating.
The people who eat melons are the initiators of the big show. They are the ones that running the show.
The most fearful thing is that you take it seriously when others are acting on the show. For the new driver, Billy Lynn, at first he understood that this was a show, and he cooperated with "Tell people staff they want to hear" - telling people what they wanted to hear.
Therefore, in media interviews, when asked what they did when they were resting in the barracks, the comrades in class B tacitly did not blurt out: they were all thinking about women. Instead, he said seriously about thinking about his family, playing chess, playing games, etc.
But they soon showed up, bringing their upright battlefield thinking to the show.
When a football player asks about weapons with a curious mind, and the feeling of killing. Billy answered them very seriously, M4 has limited lethality, and M60 will beat people into pink blood mist. It can be seen that he was psychologically tortured when he described it. One man's curiosity is another man's poison.
During the meal, the owner of the oil exploration company mentioned that if he drilled oil wells at home, (the United States would not need Iraqi oil so much), it would help the fighters return home earlier.
Originally, class B could just say a laugh and go, but the new class leader was not happy, saying that we just think killing people is cool, okay? You dig your well, we kill our people, is there a half-cent relationship between the two? So that the boss did not go down the steps, he left angrily.
Enough of the camouflage, and began to refuse to cooperate with the performance.
A spectator expressed their admiration for heroes, but made fun of rumors of homosexuality in the army. A comrade in class B said, let's make out, how does it feel? He strangled the spectator's neck until he nearly choked. When leaving, the spectators scolded Class B: Freak!
No one told Class B in advance how to prepare for the performance. When the performance started, they were called to and fro by the director and venue security guards in the chaotic scene. They were just commercial props, but they were dissatisfied with the disrespect of others, and there was a physical conflict with the stadium security at the beginning, which led to a group fight when they left the stadium.
The ending is: the hero can't beat the security guard and is beaten down.
Originally, soldiers were no higher than security guards. And everyone in Class B had a variety of reasons for enlisting: Lynn became a soldier in exchange for his father's help in withdrawing his lawsuit, some were for the enlistment fee, some were not required to pay social security... Anyway, there was no patriotism.
Investor Norman bewitched Class B with patriotic remarks and used their stories to adapt a movie. The remuneration dropped from 100,000 per person to $5,500.
They shouldn't have taken $100,000 seriously in the first place. Flickering is an important magic weapon in the investment world and the film and television industry. In this way, they will not feel the gap and the shame that this gap brings.
The $5,500 was also the only offer that Class B received, and Norman showed the sincerity of a businessman. Originally, people are very forgetful, people move on, this is the characteristic of the show era. Your story is no longer your story, and will soon be outdated. Your two weeks are two years in Hollywood.
The label of hero is to extract value while the iron is hot. Obsolescence is ineffective, isn't it? Something is better than nothing, right? ——A little is better than nothing.
When Norman talked about the risk of investing, the new squad leader said: As a soldier, I think we know best what risk means.
Risk, in the eyes of the boss, is the loss of money. In war, soldiers risk losing their lives or being disabled. The businessman and the warrior, using two systems thinking problems.
Although the new monitor is very angry, he is still trying to bargain. After all, nothing is better than nothing.
Billy said calmly, but firmly: He (Norman) was wrong. Sometimes nothing is better than a little. He rejected the bid and completely broke with the show.
A new driver's killer move to an old driver can only be: Lao Tzu doesn't play anymore.
Billy, under the repeated persuasion of his sister and the doctor, also tried to find a healthy excuse to stay in the country.
During the national anthem and fireworks, the tears he shed were not for patriotism or war, but for the scene in his fantasy of his favorite Feishan having sex with a football player after he left.
He had nothing at all, whether it was understanding, love, or even physical pleasure, some were just hero labels that he himself did not recognize and understand. Why should you cooperate with other people's dramas and sell this absurd label in partnership?
After rejecting Norman, he was determined to go back and continue fighting.
A little bit is no better than nothing at all. It can only give people unnecessary hope and hallucinations, and take other people's dramas as real.
Just like when Feishan kissed him for the last time, he said: I really wanted to run away with you!
Feishan was taken aback and her eyes widened: Aren't you a hero? You are going back to the battlefield.
Billy was silent for a moment, then said awkwardly: I was just joking.
What you thought was true love turned out to be just a show. You think people like and understand you, but what she likes is just your label.
Billy couldn't get used to this huge life show. What he is most comfortable with is the battlefield. The battlefield made him and his comrades in Class B feel safer. Therefore, he rejected his sister's kindness and shook his head to his sister who came to prevent him from returning to the team.
Mushrooms believe in Ganesha, the Ganesha god, the god of wisdom and the god of breaking obstacles in Hinduism: everything in this world has cause and effect and destiny, and there is no need to think about the past or worry about the future. If I'm going to die on the battlefield, the bullet that killed me is now on its way.
He said to Billy Lynn: You don't have to worry about why you came here and what will happen in the future, you just need to do what you need to do.
Although the war, like the show, cannot be controlled by Billy, but it is obviously not Billy's destiny to be on the show stage. It was his destiny to return to the battlefield with Class B, because he was a soldier.
It's just that this label is no longer posted to him by others, but given to himself by himself.
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