Review of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) by Nedryerson1 — 02 Feb 2017
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is another movie exploring the struggle with PTSD back at home from war. I wish to say that Ang Lee faced it with a whole new approach or something like that, but he doesn’t.
At least the story is told in a nonlinear way, center in the life at home with flashback to the war. Basically the struggle is the same as American Sniper, but with a young protagonist, without a clue of what he is doing with his life and a family mess.
So you don’t get to see big consequences in his actual life choices, but instead just glimpses of trauma. There are two interesting things in this film, the technical way in which the war catches up to the protagonist and the truth about the show business that takes advantage of these poor traumatized soldiers.
The movie is stimulating, definitely, but it’s more of the same topic. Ang Lee stays certainly in debt.
This review of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) was written by Nedryerson1 on 02 Feb 2017.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk has generally received mixed reviews.
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