beautiful, poetic and tough

Rating: 10/10 (31 August 2006)

Terrence Malick's The Thin Red line was released in the same year as SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but each film couldn't be more different. Ryan focuses on how a man's innocence dies in war, Malick's film is about how a man's soul dies in war. The thin red line is flawlessly acted, a special notion should be given to Jim Caviezel as the Kentukian Private Witt, Seann Penn as the enigmatic Welsh and Nick Nolte in a performance as good as in Affliction as Colonel Tall. The film is well paced and the voice overs really reaches the heart, specially Witt's quest for immortality. Unlike the book, Welsh is not a nutter and Witt is more Philosophical. As well the relationship between Welsh and Wiit is more like the one of Warden and Prewitt in From Here To Eternity, another book from James Jones.
Brutal and Beautiful this is in my TOP FIVE FILMS OF ALL TIME. 10/10