great factual and sensitive film

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2006)

I thoroughly enjoyed this film the attention to detail was superb apart from the few goofs, the most prominent being at the end when the ships are in the harbour in england (cornwall to be precise) as the camera pans up a modern sailing ship complete with white painted handrails and a navigation radar affixed to the mast can be clearly seen in the top right of the picture. How they missed that is beyond but the rest made up for it. Not to sure about the native 'aboriginal type dance' a direct copy of the dance performed in the film 'walkabout'. The film in general was well made although I feel that the trademark voice overs of that Terrence mallick has in some of his films can sometimes be a bit too much distracting. This film reminded me of the thin red line in its nature versus violence with lots of deep meaning narratives, which sometimes got in the way but hey what do I know about such things. I just really enjoyed the film apart from the glaring goof at the end!