Beautiful...

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2000)

but not powerful. I have read some of the other user comments on this film, and I agree that this movie is a very true to life, psychological, tragic portrayal of man and war. I was drawn in to some of the characters minds by the use of thought, I followed the love story that depicted that everyone does indeed have that evil within ourselves. I stood beside the man who danced with the savages. So I saw the beauty of the movie...but well into the film I still had a hard time seeing which soldier was which. I couldn't understand who was thinking half the time. It showed "HATE" and "DARKNESS" in such a subdued way. Maybe if it had been darker more people would have hated it. But you cant have light without darkness, no good without evil. And although this film discussed that, and it showed people getting killed on either side, and it showed the men suffer, I think it could have been incredibly more powerful. You want to see a beautiful, powerful movie? Go watch Doctor Zhivago. Go watch Das Boot. You like this movie, those ones will knock you over.