Ang Lee's new film has a good reputation: technology is the icing on the cake.

4D, 3K, 120 frames/second, these three groups of numbers entered the public's ears with the upcoming release of the Ang Lee film Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time. When a brand-new thing appears, the lack of reference system often leads to the polarization of judgment. Ang Lee's brand-new technology, which has led the world film industry for 20 years, has also suffered the same experience. After the film premiered in North America, there were two opposite voices, and some sharp doubts were particularly noticeable. However, on the day of the Beijing premiere of 1 1.6, the vast majority of the first audience in China chose to firmly support Ang Lee's technological innovation. After watching the movie, they burst into a circle of friends in Weibo and scored a lot of high marks. However, there are also some viewers who bluntly say that the plot is a bit dull, or it will take some time to adapt to the new viewing effect.

In order to truly present the viewing experience of the first audience in China, Xiao Lang specially visited Youtang Store in Bona Studios, which has 3D, 4K, 120 frames/second screening halls, and asked the directors, actors, film critics and ordinary fans who came to watch the movie, and collected the first batch of online word-of-mouth. If you don't blow it black, you can adjust your expectations accordingly. As several fans told Xiao Lang, we don't know whether Ang Lee is exploring the right direction in the future, but after all, such a movie-watching experience is rare, so it's always right to give it a try.

[Overall praise]

The screen seems to become a window, and technology adds icing on the cake to the content.

Cheng Qingsong, film producer (live interview before the movie): I'm sitting in the second row. I am not dizzy at all. I was there. The screen is like a place where I need to find shelter. The scene of this war is different. This is quite exciting. Ang Lee is a very patient and calm director. He patiently finished a film that needed patience to finish. The previous evaluation of the United States was not very good, but at present everyone's circle of friends has a high evaluation. If it looks good, I will go to Taiwan Province Province in a few days. Personally, I think director Ang Lee is the most accomplished Chinese at present. He has won two Golden Lion Awards, two Golden Bear Awards and an Oscar for Best Director. In this position, he did not give up the exploration with the help of new technology. I think he has a lot of courage, and I will support him with this courage.

Young director Rambo (live interview before the movie): I'm here to learn new grammar. I don't know if there is a new grammar now, mainly depending on the new form. I have read the original novel. Compared with American conservatism, I want to see if Ang Lee can come up with something new. Because Eastwood filmed American Sniper before, it also had a certain influence on the mainstream values of the United States, but the audience in China was not familiar with this background. Film is always a combination of art form and technical means. The improvement of special effects should be affirmed, but it is not necessarily good or bad. In short, there must be the possibility of trying first.

Lulu, actor (live interview after watching the movie): There is both content and technology. The technology is in front of everyone, and the content is great and touching.

Weibo @ Fang Jun recommended movies: high-speed movement is smooth and accurate, and visual elements are extremely rich. The screen seems to become a window instead of a projection device, which leads to another world like any door. It's gorgeous and amazing!

Weibo @ Movie Preview: 120 The effect of frame 4K 3D is really amazing. The film is very delicate and slowly goes deep into your heart. The lens has a strong sense of substitution. I am particularly impressed by the eyes of the little boy in the Iraqi civilian family, which can make you feel what the war has brought to the next generation.

Douban @ Faying: Abandoning some technologies and even using the cliche of beginners, in order to make way for the technology of 120 frame +4K+3D, making technology a part of the theme is its biggest controversy. Personally, the greatest pleasure it creates is that we carefully and successfully observed a lonely and frightened person and gave sympathy, but this person finally chose to be my enemy.

Douban @ Zhang Future: Compared with Pi, Ang Lee told a very simple story this time. I guess it makes way for the new technology of 4K 120 frames. But the details of the picture are so clear and vivid that everyone on the screen can breathe. The horror of watching movies like this is that the exposure caused by the picture turns your emotional expression into a pure physiological reaction. Before you could think, you were in tears. The body is crying, but it has nothing to do with the brain

Douban: Behind the revolutionary visual technology is Ang Lee's exquisite and restrained narrative style as always. The story pattern is slightly cramped and plain, but it hits people's hearts directly. Although there are not many hot and cool scenes, it still makes people feel the cruelty of war and the inner waves of the protagonist. The reason why a hero is a hero lies not in his powerful ability, but in his choice.

Douban @ Fish: Ang Lee made an American-themed film with his profound oriental philosophy. After the era of knowing destiny, An Shu is more peaceful, but also sharper. Looking at An Shu on the stage, he said that movies were his dream and belief. He challenged the new technology just to make his dream clearer and burst into tears. I met so many directors that I didn't believe it until Ang Lee said that movies were faith.

Friends circle @ Yi Dongdong: Before watching the movie, the introduction of the movie is "still water is deep and the aftertaste is long". As a result, I always felt deeply touched after reading it, and finally I shed tears. After watching it for half an hour, my mood gradually calmed down. This is obviously very commercial and mainstream! The application of new technology really needs to adapt, but it is not as uncomfortable as foreign media said. These two scenes are impressive. First, the soldiers lined up at the gate, waiting for the Hummer to pick them up for the halftime performance. The second is war drama. "Immersive" experience, we deserve it. ...

Friends circle @ Mengyi: It's much clearer and brighter than the ordinary 2D version. I feel like a nearsighted person. Wearing high-powered glasses for the first time is refreshing, and many details are infinitely magnified. As an audience, it is like having a dream with the protagonist. From the war-torn battlefield in Iraq to the football field full of vitality, the hero's heart is still struggling in the pain of war, but there are always more important meanings to be discovered in life, such as the brotherhood of mutual protection, such as causal reincarnation, and the sense of mission in life. I recommend watching 120 frame version, which is the best presentation of this film.

Friends circle @ Chuan: The so-called long intermission is just a kind of hypocritical care and consideration. The American people spy on soldiers and war from the other side, imagining war as a killing game, gun training and government interests, or rising to American spirit and heroism, and treating soldiers as exhibits. But just like the functionality of 120 frame, it is the naked and bloody truth of military life. When these incomprehensible soldiers were sent to Iraq, they became their own country, and no one else could enter their lives equally.

Friends circle @ 京京京: Uncle An really doesn't fool. 120 frame is a new world and a very special movie experience-like entering the protagonist's brain, watching what he sees, thinking what he thinks, feeling what he feels ... The information explodes, and he doesn't dare to blink from beginning to end. But it's not all about the number of frames, it's a whole set of changes in lens language and performance style, but the theme is still Ang Lee-style rationality and sensibility, innocence and sophistication, political correctness and inaccuracy ... and digestion ~ I give 120 points for this film class!

Douban @ Yin: The fable of the blind touching the elephant. The war is so great that no one can tell what it is. The film focuses on one day, and the amount of information explodes, but look down. Who is right and who is wrong? Everyone seems to be trying to understand the war from their own perspective. Some people pretend to care, while others don't.

Weibo @ He: Technology is so different that word-of-mouth played down the content in the past. As always, Ang Lee's narrative skill is steady and solid, and he has handled the grand proposition, the flowing space transformation, the characterization of each role, and the appropriate emotional rendering, including the unprecedented test of the actor's performance, impeccably.

Friends circle @ Sleepless Fish: Life and death struggle in cement pipes. At the last moment, the Iraqi whose throat was cut by Lynn pointed his hand at the sky and looked at the camera. What did he see? At that moment, I sat in front of the screen, seemingly unconsciously shrinking, and became an accomplice in a killing. Even, it refers to the messenger. 120 frame, 4K, 3D. The superimposed picture is like the trial operation of the top color TV in the appliance store. Bright and beautiful, beautiful But it doesn't seem so real. In other words, it is an artificial reality. After watching the whole film, I finally understand why Ang Lee chose this new technology. It's an experiment, but it's also ironic. This is about the truth, and the truth you have been taught. These two are definitely not the same thing After all this fighting, I just want to tell you that seeing is believing. The theme is actually his consistent self-search and self-discovery.

[technical questions]

It takes some time to adapt to high definition, and individual shots go against the original intention of pursuing truth.

Director Guan Hu (live interview after the movie): There is nothing special about technology. The clarity will be higher. The previous picture is rough. It's so certain. Any new technology must have a certain adaptation time, and it must be adapted at the beginning of 3D.

Douban @Xastle: What Ang Lee wants to do is to reproduce the feelings that Lumiere brothers brought to the audience when they created Train Entering the Station, but because it was the first time, he abandoned the always idealized lens. The sense of reality and the excessive content of several deep depth of field really create a feeling of "performance". Flashback is good for dealing with the relationship between the hero and each role, but it goes against the original intention of the director to create a sense of reality.

Douban @ celluloid: As a technology-driven project, it is difficult to evaluate, which means that the evaluation is no longer the present of the film, but the future of the film. For this more emotional and dangerous technology, my attitude is still ambiguous, and I am more inclined to refuse while enjoying it emotionally.

[Plot regret]

The script is scattered and not smooth enough, and the emotional impact has the feeling of itching.

Douban @ Duckling: The whole thing was scattered, and it seemed to be criticized. Finally, the main theme was sung. 120 frames will have a sense of bounce, and the intense emotions of actors will become very infectious, such as crying and getting angry. The script is inappropriate, and the characters often do strange things inexplicably, just like a group of menstrual girls. I can't believe it's the story of Ang Lee.

Douban @ roll! Egg Castle: I didn't feel the real and invasive movie-watching experience that everyone said. Except for the halftime show and the war scene, the whole story is not suitable for high-frame technology presentation. A lot of flashback shots are simple and rude. I am speechless, too. Aside from the technical level, the story is too mediocre, mainly focusing on the doubts and thinking of soldiers after returning to real life, and it can't reach the height of anti-war.

Douban @ Mustard Sauce: Ang Lee has been obsessed with technology in recent years and has been obsessed with promoting its development. This innovative spirit is indeed to be acknowledged, but his expression is actually retrogressive. In fact, this problem was exposed when he was a teenager. This creation is still conservative, and he can't play hearts as before, which is actually quite far from his skills.