My comments about this film are not fair enough.

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 1999)

Poetic!
This word is the best one to describe this marvelous story. The first thing we notice when we watch is the meaning of the title. As far as I am concerned, two things can be said about it: in a formal way, a red line is a war front, where enemies combat (and that's the subject of the film); the other one, much more subtle, is that the thin red line is the border between the fight for convictions, nation and ideals and the fight, the cruel fight for surviving, such a thin line that sometimes we don't know when we cross it. That's what the film attacks: the man don't have to face this conflict, war is stupid, and we never know why we are in it. The soundtrack is perfect, as well as direction and photography. Terrence Malick proved to be an amazing director. I think it's not necessary to say that what happened during the last Academy Awards was completely unfair. Instead of winning not one, The Thin Red Line should have won all the statuettes to which it was indicated.