Gossip Ang Lee (13)/Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle: Ultra-Clear Technique, Mediocre Story

"I just did what I was supposed to do."

Title: Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle

Released: 2016

Director: Ang Lee

Writers: Jean-Christopher Castries

Starring: Joe Alvin, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker

Honestly, I think this movie is pretty average.

The biggest significance of this film is also the innovation of technology, this is the first time director Ang Lee tried 120 frames + 4K + 3D technology, although with the most brutal and ultra-clear shooting and production technology gimmicks today, I think this film is difficult to call a classic.

In fact, Ang Lee seems to have been very interested in technology in recent years, sparing no effort to promote the technology of 120 frames + 4K + 3D, and there is a trend of becoming a technology control, but two consecutive works "Billy Lynn's Halftime War" and "Twin Killers" are very general, the reputation is not good, and the box office is also a continuous Waterloo.

Although director Ang Lee's innovative spirit is commendable, I think it is worth encouraging, but as a fan, it is difficult to make a higher evaluation of the two ultra-high-tech works of "Billy Lynn's Halftime War" and "Twin Killers".

These two works may only be Ang Lee's experimental works, so they are far from reaching the level of maturity.

In fact, the most basic and important thing is that this story is not good.

Iraq's war heroes appeared in rugby, from being highly watched and sought after to being used sarcastically, and then leaving in a daze. Finally decided to return to the battlefield.

Such a story is too general.

Main melody? Like the main theme of the movie. satirize? And not depth. Antiwar? There doesn't seem to be much anti-war.

Although there are Ang Lee fans who try to give more depth to the film, and deliberately pull Fina because Lynn is a combat hero to like him, she likes that he just likes the aura of the void battle hero instead of Lynn and so on, but I think these interpretations are all over-interpretation, all nonsense.

This is an extremely mediocre story, the plot is bland, the character portrayal is not in place, the conflict is limited, the plot is too bland to see, and it is not possible to talk about the depth of the theme and the metaphor of humanistic thinking.

The film is just a most banal story made with state-of-the-art technology. That's all.

For technology, I don't think there is much to say, neither a technical expert nor a technical controller, I am just an ordinary movie fan. When I watch movies, first of all, it is a good story plot and performance, and then it is the aesthetic of picture color technology.

I think that ninety-nine percent of the fans do not understand technology, but also not interested in technology, watching movies is for entertainment, figure a happy life, this has nothing to do with the type of film, more to do with film technology, only about whether the story is good or not, the actor's performance is good, or the actor's appearance is not high, this is the first concern.

Who would go to see a movie in order to see super clear technology?

So this movie I think is just hovering at the passing line, far from the standard of a good movie, from the perspective of an ordinary movie fan.

I think director Ang Lee himself is of course well aware that the story of Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle is extremely mediocre, just a film where he experiments with 120 frames + 4K + 3D technology.

Perhaps, director Ang Lee is also looking for the right story to suit this state-of-the-art filmmaking technology.

Hopefully, one day he will find a story that is properly expressed.