Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Analysis

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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is an interesting psychological journey of a war hero. The hallucinations, flashbacks really show what his team had to go through in contrast to America’s perceptions.
One of the most interesting scenes in the movie is when Billy and Dime meet with the owner of the Cowboys, Oglesby, who cut their deal for the movie adaptation of the story for 5,500 from the originally agreed upon 100,000. This was a huge setback but it truly did portray how America’s institutions of power function, in a way, against these war heroes. In this scene, Oglesby really does come off as a villain in this movie, among others too. The interesting thing about this is also that this is a movie (isn’t based on a true story but on a deeply

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