"Billy Lynn's Midfield Battle" is a film directed by Ang Lee. In the film, a 19-year-old American Texas soldier takes risks on the battlefield to rescue the squad leader. This scene was accidentally captured by the camera, and Billy Lynn became a well-known American hero. After that, the group of soldiers was invited to participate in a live American football game. In this short process, Billy Lynn experienced a struggling psychological change. It also reveals the true story of the soldiers on the battlefield.
This is the story of a 19-year-old boy. Because of family changes, Billy Lynn had to put on a military uniform and go to a strange and dangerous country. Point a gun at men, women and even children. Billy didn't even know why he did this, but he had to obey the commander's orders. During the war. He was named a "hero", but he didn't think it was worth showing off. Because he had personally watched the squad leader he trusted the most slowly dying in his arms, he personally killed the enemy who was captured with staring eyes, and he walked through the battlefield filled with smoke. All the marks that made him miserable were deeply engraved in his memory. But the most ironic thing is that when they represent the "Yingdui" to participate in rugby games, they become an eye-catching burden.
The businessman hopes to use his "heroic power" to do business, and the staff even thinks that they are obstructive and delaying their clearance to fight with them; when he kissed his beloved girl goodbye, he said emotionally that he wanted to run away with her, but the girl questioned He shouldn’t think like this; although his sister loves Billy, she doesn’t understand that Billy Lynn shoulders a heavy responsibility... At the end of the film, the soldiers said "I am going back finally", maybe it is. A real relief. As a soldier, the battlefield and brothers have become their true home in their hearts. What exactly is
hero? In our universal values, heroes are high-spirited men who sacrifice for the country. But this video tells us. Heroes are not gods. They are people. In this film, none of these soldiers wants to return to the terrifying battlefield. But they cannot return to the world we attached to them. "How do you feel when you kill?" "How do you feel when you see your comrades sacrifice in front of yourself?" Such insulting questions made it difficult for Billy to answer. "Hero" is just the spiritual symbol of foolish people. "Hero" itself is a great irony. Therefore, the Lynns who have returned from the battlefield are very angry at the arrogance of the people. This film is plain with deepness and seriousness, like a mirror illuminating our hearts. When we find that the hero in our hearts is not as perfect as we imagined, can we understand that he is also an ordinary person. The story of the
film develops in linear time, with reality and memories being edited in parallel, from the perspective of Billy Lynn, an American soldier who participated in the Iraq War. On that day, American soldiers were invited to participate in the performance celebration of the Thanksgiving football game. The soldiers stood in the center of the field. With brilliant fireworks in the sky, the camera turned to the battlefield, the scene of the squad leader being injured, and the fighting that was raging in smoke, substituting Billy's personal experience into the film. Throughout the film, the director pays attention to flashbacks that are closely related to similar events and logic. This way of presentation allows the audience to see deep and accurate visible images. The story of the protagonist Billy is in reality, memory, and Shuttle back and forth between fantasy. Make the whole film clear and comfortable. The
film narrative rhythm is tepid and lacks dramatic conflict, but it focuses on highlighting the emotional narrative of the protagonist's heart, and through the film story conveys the contrast between war and peace, cruelty and beauty, full of surreal absurdity. Billy Lynn is a soldier, he is only performing his duties as a soldier. In this troubled world, he does not want to enjoy the admiration of hundreds of millions of people, he just wants to live an ordinary life. At the end of the film, teammates said I love you, maybe only teammates can understand themselves on the battlefield to Iraq. This sudden "intermission" was a silent battle.
