beautiful film

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 1998)

I watched this film last night from midnight to 3 in the morning, and I have only one thing to say - this film is simply the best film of the year, and, I dare to say, perhaps one of the best films in the film history.
I firmly believe that interaction between audience and film should be made on a feeling level. Film is like music and not like literature. you should feel first than to understand. And The Thin Red Line does this so well. One image after another is so beautifully captured and presented I was having hard time breathing. some might say I'm being too pretentious just like the film, and they maybe right, but i'm sure there are audiences who felt catharsism after viewing the film. When was the last time we sat through a movie and thought about what we are watching or what we are seeing. most shots in Hollywood movies were planned so that audience don't have to think about it every minute, and they were arranged in such way that watching movie seemed almost efforless on the audience part. But The Thin Red Line goes against that. almost every scene is disjointed and fragmented. There isn't really a character who stands above other characters. That's because Malick wants you to take all that information in and create your own character. Instead of having a character telling you what the war was like, he's asking you to create your own and ask yourself about the war. Some of you who have already seen the film have probably noticed it already that this film is not about war, but really about the relationship between human and the nature. what is our relationship with them at present? Have we lost our contact with them? What is there to ask for in the nature that we need? I already want to see this film again.