Hold a Light Fire and Walk in a Secluded Way — From the Movie “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk” to See a Nobody’s Self-Identity

DOI

10.2991/erss-18.2019.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The movie “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”; a nobody; self-identity; spiritual growth.

Abstract

The famous director Ang Lee's work “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk” was released on November 11, 2016. After its release, it has received great attention. The paper will analyze the nobody’s characters in the film and describe the process of the change of the nobody's self-identity -- the spiritual growth of human beings. To reveal the tragic fate of the nobody, the paper will inquire into the social value of this change.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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