MuLynch Please help i want to stop re-watching this great movie . what can i say ? i can't say anything just if you haven't seen this movie just stop reading and close the window of this page and watch it. i think and believe there is not war movie comparing with this great movie . Thank you Malick

tecktomaket THE THIN RED LINE-reflects Jamse Jones novel of the same title; that clearly states it is a fictional account of soldiering in war. Stop picking it apart for "realism."Read the book and WWII: A CHRONICLE OF SOLDIERING. Educate yourself about the authored reality/fictionalized for the sake of honoring the dead.You may have a more accurate understanding regarding the the films directional texture.Hopefully you will gain a much better understanding of what this film has accomplishes in depth and artistic reflection. Come away with greater respect.This is not an all grit adrenaline junkie blood and guts war movie. And stop pontificating semantics related to your own self defecating projections. Following orders: Really a moot point to criticize when, for example, General Clark choked at the invasion at Anzio,Italy creating a unwarranted massacre of GI Infantry. He refused Eisenhower's orders. War is a complex paradoxical grand design of the rank and file learning to live and handle fear knowing the inevitable death of soldiers en mass.Leave this film as is -appreciate it and allow it to engulf your naive psyche for its poetically enthralling lush green landscape and introspective narrative for each one has to have a pure essence in beholding the actuality of a slice of what the Pacific war is about.It is not an anti-war film (e.g.Coming Home). Correct-Japs committed Bushito-suicide charges instead if surrender. This was incorrectly depicted but the capture scene provided a look at the disseminated enemies futility not to surrender-but to die slow deaths in a heap of scorched flesh bullet riddled and bleeding soon to be corpses finality. Notable were that Marines extracted gold fillings from their enemy teeth;though the Japs committed a thousand times worst atrocities on POWs and civilians.Adrian Brody did an excellent acting performance for not having any lines. He speaks with his eyes-pure terror with a thousand yard stare.And John C Riley deserves to be noted as a credible member if the cast.Having lived in the tropical jungles I comprehend what (know first hand) Jones harmoniously expression honoring natures spell expressed in poetic verse as homage to nature's bliss and human cruelty of destruction when war becomes a predator on the Innocent Indigenous who revered the cathedral grandeur of the tropics as their life source.This is why it is one of my favorite films.

BKunaefi In my opinion, the most beautiful yet powerful movie of all time. It shows you the beautiful side of nature, and the horrors of war in the most mesmerizing way possible. With the most stunning score of Hans Zimmer's makes this, my second favorite war movies of all time, after Apocalypse Now of course.

sol- Decidedly different to the 1964 movie, this Terrence Malick version broadens the scope in the original film, giving equal focus to several World War II soldiers of the same platoon as opposed to just Pvt. Doll and Sgt. Welsh. This allows Malick to explore the war from varying perspectives, with multiple narrators and multiple flashbacks; as the film's tagline goes, we really see how "every man fights his own war". The film is accompanied by atmospheric music from Hans Zimmer, eerily sharp sounds and tracking shots that effectively crawl along with the soldiers (as if the camera is a soldier). The dreaminess of the flashbacks works well too. Admirable as Malick's approach is, it is nevertheless hard not to yearn for the intensity of the 1964 version, which - by focusing on just one private and one sergeant - acutely captured the ability of war to truly transform a human being. The titular line between madness and sanity also comes out more prominently in the earlier version. There are additionally so many protagonists in the 1998 film that one seldom gets to know them as individuals. The film's sprawling nature is quite true to the madness and mayhem of war though, and the dialogue is as poetic and haunting as ever. It may be unclear whether Malick's version of the tale makes for a more powerful war movie, but it is certainly daringly different and memorable in its own way.