The introduction of 4K/3D/120 frames of this movie has already attracted people's necks under the indiscriminate publicity of various media, but I also know that Ang Lee has never been a technical maniac. He is a responsible person in the final analysis. Movie director.
Although many viewers have previously commented on the film's unparalleled realism, the clarity and fluidity of the film's first act as it unfolds slowly is overwhelming.
Those faces are too real, and in the delicate narrative that Ang Lee is good at, those expressions of emotion are heartbreakingly real.
If "The Fantastic Drifting of Pi" is Ang Lee's desire for fantasy fables, then in "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle", Ang Lee returns to the artistic path that strives for reality.
The movie is not a juggling but it is a juggling, it is not a fairy tale but it can be a fairy tale, but the real expression allows us to have a sense of trust in the story during the viewing process, so that we can enter his world with the director and explore with him what is behind the images. Agitation and release.
This is why "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle" is particularly suitable for this extremely close to reality and even "more real" 4K/3D/120 frames, because this so-called "new technology" delicately captures facial expressions. unprecedented. Ang Lee deals with characters here with an introverted personality who face all kinds of dilemmas—the unfortunate sister, the warrior duties he has to perform, the disorienting war, and the psychological trauma it brings to him. He's not hysterical - how can an introvert be hysterical? In the halftime show where he was only pushed forward by various roles and arrangements, he kept recalling the pictures of the war. He was in the role of a "hero" and his real psychological predicament. Ups and downs, eventually leading to a strong sense of powerlessness to fate. The anxiety, choice and pain behind all this slowly flowed through his calm blue eyes. In the unprecedented high-definition picture, under the construction of image montage, the confusion in his eyes was so real that we couldn't help but feel I want to dig deeper into his mental activity.
Just don't mention the changes of expressions on the battlefield from struggle to death, those ambiguous and subtle eyes, the impression brought by the high-definition high-frame number is unforgettable. At the moment when the salute was raised, the picture of the war came to my face. The feeling of watching and swarming with painful memories was too real. I looked at him in the theater and shed tears unconsciously.
Another real part of this movie is that Ang Lee did not deliberately show any preaching, he just tried to present every psychological fluctuation of the character naturally, and inadvertently placed his own shadow in it, such as the embarrassment of finding investment in the movie , such as the contrast between the spotlight and the media's mouth, the construction of these plays within the play is a corner of Ang Lee's world revealed in the film. In the end, in those true and false shows, anger, interests, in naked fear, death and overwhelm, in the final analysis, we cannot escape our fate. But Ang Lee did not render any major sense of tragedy. Everything did not end in blood and blood on the battlefield, but in a smile and embrace in daily life, it became eternal, eternal anxiety, eternal hypocrisy, eternal powerlessness, and eternal human nature, eternal emotion.
Perhaps the film deals with too many things without any obvious overarching motif, making it feel trivial. But most of it was just one day at the halftime show, and Billy Lynn, a hero tangled in all kinds of predicaments, faced the inescapable gulf between others and himself. It was these seemingly rambling words The twists and turns make this story extraordinarily immersive and empathetic. In the end, is our pain relieved? There is no answer.
Because life is mostly about the flow of nothingness.
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