MCU Complete Me

We discuss 2016's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee’s first attempt to portray the pathos of soldiers with the innovative technique of high frame rate. In its script, Billy Lynn is a straightforward crying soldier movie that wants us to feel bad for the people who invaded Iraq, but is something more achieved through the dissonant effect of high frame rate?

We inagurate Ang Lee Pod Cast with one last Will Smith movie: 2019's Gemini Man. Ang Lee injects his characteristic pathos into a 90s script destined to be a Tony Scott thriller, and he does it with the odd but compelling effect of high frame rate. Will Smith plays an aging genius assassin who is confronted by a younger version of himself, which triggers an eventful mid-life crisis.

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.