I couldn't sleep the night before because I was about to experience the latest in film technology. Until the first half hour of the film, I was thinking about other things and couldn't concentrate on the story. What I thought was nothing more than some past events. I thought of my first experience with 3D technology, my first time watching "Avatar", my first time watching a Chinese dome screen, a giant screen, and my first time watching IMAX. I also thought of the future movie viewing experience, and it is probably the freshness and expectation for the future that attracts me more. During this half hour, my heart beat so fast, I felt that my breathing was out of tune.
By the end of the film, my heart palpitations and breathlessness did not ease, which was also due to the impact brought by the film itself, the room acoustics and the so-called 120-frame high-frequency film technology.
Regardless of the comfort or comfort brought by this new technology, I am grateful and moved by the experience, because it pulled me into that far-flung movie world long before the story officially pulled me into it. Distant becomes real, as if we are in it, an unconscious yet polite invitation to the audience.
Under the cover of dazzling technology, it is the growth story of a distressed big boy, and it is still the similar, flat and shocking story we have all seen. That boy, perhaps the one that often appears in the movies, the boy with heartbreaking eyes and moving us.
This is a movie where the audience is very close to the mood swings of the boy, the boy in this movie is Billy Lynn. At some point, as the audience, we became Billy Lynn, and we were stunned to discover that we could think with his mood across the barrier, and could get very close to the character's heart. Sincere story core, shared human emotion. The feeling and impact that any technology helps us get can never be separated from the story. Ang Lee tried a new technology on such a sincere and pure story, so that people don't have to be restrained by the complicated and incomprehensible plot, and it is a correct decision to have the skill and willingness to accept the visual impact.
When the way of telling a story becomes a little bit more complicated, and the film becomes more and more complicated, the audience's eyes become simpler, for example, simple emotions can touch my heart.
I hope that in the future, the movies we see will still remain simple and moving.
I hope that many years from now, I can still watch movies with tears in my eyes.
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