A requiem for the warriors soul

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2005)

Simply explained, The Thin Red Line is a war movie like no others! Why? Because it dosen't film war. It film the people of war. The warriors, the casualties, the death and most important of all, the myth. All you logic thinkers of the world, in front of your desktop, ask yourself. Would you still think logically if you were in from of your imminent destruction? Maybe not.
The movie opens on a beautiful sequence of Private Witt, getting closer of mother nature. Witt, despite not being a brilliant man is in some kind of communion with the nature. Well, the whole damn movie is. Malick dresses up an intriguing yet, interesting comparative study between nature & nature of men. Terrence Malick goes deep into the nature of men confronted to death and destruction. You even see some touching antropomorphisation of nature, taking care of the departed when Coombs, taken by the waters of mother nature, takes a trip, by the rapids, to the other world.
That's the major difference with all the war film I see. Death isn't the finality. What was bring by mother nature goes back to mother nature and Malick expresses it in a beautiful way.
For the haters who say the movie dosen't have a plot, yes it does. Americans have to take back Guadalcanal. Simple but effective, not as plot less as a stupid average action movie heh? But Malick dosen't revolve about that idea. He's filming death and it's mythological surroundings, a bit like in the Iliad by Homer, who's cited by Malick once with Nick Nolte character.
A truly beautiful and astonishing movie that went straight under the radar as far as understanding is concerned.
A movie to see about individual living war.
10/10