Captain today to share with you a movie, adapted from the novel, "Billy. Lynn's Halftime Battle". What is the story of this movie? Let's take a look!
The story takes place after the U.S. war on Iraq, and our protagonist Billy is the one who lived through it. However, the protagonist's original intention of joining the army was only to choose the path chosen by his sister to avoid punishment.
During one mission, teammate Mushroom is ambushed and in danger. Billy rushes out, fighting off the enemy and trying to save his teammates! Although the final result mushroom is still dead! However, this scene was captured by a camera! The video was taken by the media, brought back to China after publicity fermentation, Billy's B class became a star soldier in the United States, and even called a hero (it feels a bit like Captain America just came out, doing a tour everywhere feeling)
Billy and mushrooms
In order to bury the class leader, Class B was given the opportunity to return home. However, Billy, who came back from the battlefield, and even the entire B class, was somewhat uncomfortable. After all, most have post-traumatic stress disorder. Coupled with that kind of plus honor, the name, they were at a loss. The main plot line is that after the B class returns to China, it is sought after by the people and invited by a baseball team sponsor to watch the game. In this process, various flashback plots are constantly interspersed with the protagonist's headache. There's Billy coming home and spending time with his family; billy's freshness to the army, to the battlefield, to meet mushrooms and squad leaders; and billy's B class to carry out the full picture of the mission that was known.
The pain of war, the expectations of family members and the reluctance of teammates, and the habits of soldiers, the two are constantly pulling in proportion. Yes, when you go to the battlefield, you are full of dangers all the time, and you are not only facing terrorists, but even a small child is hostile to you. Back at home, his sister's care and spare no effort to find a way to let him stay, even here, with a cheerleader exchange of feelings, let him have a beautiful vision of life here. However, whenever Billy sees his teammates, knows that his teammates are still going to return to that terrible battlefield, if he withdraws, how will his teammates look at himself, and the squad leader has also said that he is suitable for the team, because in the team, he is the most calm, with him, the teammates will not do things that cannot be cleaned up and hope that he can stay, and Billy is not a soldier, it seems that going back is just a jerk.
Billy and his sister
However, in the process of watching the rugby game, they found that in fact, they were just a chess piece and a prop. The pursuit of the people is only an entertainment effect, they do not understand the war, the soldiers. It doesn't even see them as anything, it's just that rich people need them to be heroes, and they're heroes. The capitalist boss wants to pay the lowest price to buy their stories, and even the surprised expression of the cheerleaders who have a good feeling for each other say that they want to elope with each other, let him understand that the so-called heroes, honors, and fame after returning are only imposed by people, and then people forget them all. Even the woman is in love with the hero, not him. He understood that what he was going to do was not a hero, just a soldier.
There is a lot of irony hidden in the story. In fact, many times, like Billy, we are just a pawn and tool of the capitalists. Sometimes, that vanity often makes us forget who we really are and what we should do.
As Billy says in the film, the day the mushroom died was a very sad and bad day for him, but people were celebrating and calling them heroes.
In fact, the soldiers and heroes in the play, change a more familiar identity, stars and actors, is not also the meaning of this. Billy was a soldier, and he didn't join the army to be a hero. Some actors also like to act so they become actors, not to be stars. But how many people can not get lost there?