Everyone is telling their own story. People put their emotions into it according to the clues of the story, distorting or ignoring some emotions outside the story, whether they are important or not.

There are also "others" in these stories So people transform them according to the story pattern and their own understanding of the characters. They will give these people a fixed role: hero, anti-thief, growing rebellious teenager ... and then, they will ignore, distort or delete those emotions or ideas that are not in line with the story setting, regardless of whether these emotions or experiences are important to the parties.

If you can't read other people's story templates, you will find it impossible to communicate. Even after reading other people's stories, communication is still very difficult.

Interpreting a movie is the process of integrating it into our own story. Some people's stories are grand narratives. For example, some people say that Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is about a meaningless war. In other words, it reflects the contradiction that the American class is tearing. But in my eyes, this is not the story that Ang Lee wants to tell.

Ang Lee is not the kind of person who likes to tell "socialist stories". He respects the people in the movie more than the people in the movie. No matter what era, scene, relationship, role and status these characters are in, he wants to show the unspeakable and subtle emotions and feelings of those characters.

Billy Lynn is such a movie. It's about the difficulty of communication between people. Everyone wants to write Billy Lynn into their stories. No one tried to really understand him. Expanding or modifying these long-established stories in their hearts to approach the cruelty felt by Billy Lynn will make them uneasy.

In The Story of Parents, Billy Lynn is a proud son who killed the enemy for his country. This story is also the story that the neighbors of the town want to tell them.

"Seeing your video, people in the town are talking about you these days, and our family is like a celebrity. 」

They are willing to believe this story, perhaps because their family is poor. Lynn's joining the army has brought many benefits to her family. Because of this, they don't want to see the real danger facing Lynn. So they watch the video of Billy Lynn saving the captain, just like watching a hero's war movie.

Billy Lynn is a story in which a Texas boss invited Team B to participate in the halftime performance, which is a growing story of a Texas teenager from ignorance to heroic killing. This story embodies the fighting spirit of Texas with a long history, just like his team. Of course, this story is also a business, and everyone is worth 5000 dollars.

In the story of the developer of shale gas, Lynn and these soldiers are victims of being sent to the battlefield by the country for oil. And his own occupation is to save these soldiers.

"When shale gas technology is mature, you can go home." When he said this to class B soldiers in the tone of savior, it caused the monitor to refute.

In the story of arranging the halftime show, the B-class soldiers are just extras invited by the boss. Stage elements. She even asked them to take off their neat military uniforms and put on camouflage uniforms, "because it is more like being ready to fight at any time", which is more infectious.

In the story of the cheerleader, Lynn is probably a romantic encounter in her beautiful youth. Lynn's heroic status can be added. Tell me about this experience.

When Lynn said, "At that moment, I really wanted to run away with you," she couldn't help but get flustered-that's not how her story was written. So she said, "Aren't you a hero? You still have to go back. " .

In my sister's story, Lynn is the victim and victim of this country. She has been trying to save her brother from the battlefield. One of the reasons why she is willing to believe this story is that her brother went to war because of her. The story of salvation can alleviate her guilt.

When Lynn asked her, "Can't you be proud of me?" She said, "I've always been proud of you."

Everyone is telling their own story.

Story is a complicated and structured pattern. It will be able to encapsulate the plot and emotion that connects the narrator and the audience in a story capsule. However, is this story about Lynn's courage and glory, as those mass media and people who eat melons want to tell? Or the tragedy behind the glory, as his sister or some anti-war people said, these story patterns will inevitably distort and compress the reality, and the complex and diverse concrete and real people behind that story are easily overlooked. Those really heavy and personal experiences, feelings and experiences: rushing into the home of an Iraqi man in the middle of the night, the little boy's eyes are uneasy, fearful and hateful. And the desperate fight of terrorists in cement pipes, the bloodshot eyes of terrorists before their death are difficult to be accommodated in the story.

I guess this may be the reason why Ang Lee uses the new technology of 120 frame: by carefully restoring what Lynn saw, she can restore her true feelings and experiences compressed by other people's stories. However, he also presents these by telling stories.

What about Lynn herself? What kind of story does he want to tell? Maybe he doesn't know it himself. He didn't join the army for the honor of his country. Because he smashed the car of a man who abandoned his sister and committed a crime, his father sent him to Iraq. His family is poor, maybe he went to war for money. He didn't do it for his own growth, although his life inevitably moved forward through these experiences. Among the many things that puzzled him, only one thing can make him feel real: when he went to the battlefield, all his comrades around him stood by him.

In this confused world, it is very important to determine the truth a little. This may be why he chose to return to the battlefield in Iraq.

It is difficult to understand a person. When we are immersed in our own story, even if what Billy Lynn saw is completely presented to us with 120 frame and 4K technology, we may still turn a blind eye to this person. Just like in life, when we are immersed in our own stories, we may still turn a blind eye to the opposite person, even if he does not present a compressed hologram to us. Just like ourselves, those precious experiences and feelings will be ignored in other people's stories, feel irrelevant, and slowly forget.

This is the story of this movie in my mind.

P.S. Ang Lee actually has a story similar to Billy Wayne's. The story about him fooling around in new york for six years without finding a job. After he won many honors, many people took this experience out and said it. Ang Lee's calm and lonely character, Mrs Ang Lee's gentleness and kindness, and the deep affection between husband and wife are all talked about by them as the foreshadowing of Ang Lee's success. Then, Zhiyou @ Kurosawa replied: Ang Lee has been at home for six years, why not go out to work? Restored the story. This is really: "the most miserable day of my life is always boasted." 」