Beautiful nonsense

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2019)

Thin Red Line is in many ways a beautiful film, but it is wrong to build allegory on false portrayal of Pacific Theater. Ask yourself how this film would have fared if it represented the same attitudes as present in the European theater?
Consider the fact that Captain Staros is no different than Lieutenant Norman Dike in band of Brothers. Do you want to fallow Staros/Dike or Gaff (Cusak)/Spiers in a life od death situation?
And Guadalcanal was hardly 'just about real estate." It was about needed first steps in stopping a Japanese Empire that was as mass murderous and aggressive as the Third Reich