Read The Book THIN RED LINE

Rating: 8/10 (14 September 2017)

THE THIN RED LINE-reflects Jamse Jones novel of the same title; that clearly states it is a fictional account of soldiering in war. Stop picking it apart for "realism."
Read the book and WWII: A CHRONICLE OF SOLDIERING. Educate yourself about the authored reality/fictionalized for the sake of honoring the dead.
You may have a more accurate understanding regarding the the films directional texture.
Hopefully you will gain a much better understanding of what this film has accomplishes in depth and artistic reflection. Come away with greater respect.
This is not an all grit adrenaline junkie blood and guts war movie. And stop pontificating semantics related to your own self defecating projections.
Following orders: Really a moot point to criticize when, for example, General Clark choked at the invasion at Anzio,Italy creating a unwarranted massacre of GI Infantry. He refused Eisenhower's orders.
War is a complex paradoxical grand design of the rank and file learning to live and handle fear knowing the inevitable death of soldiers en mass.
Leave this film as is -appreciate it and allow it to engulf your naive psyche for its poetically enthralling lush green landscape and introspective narrative for each one has to have a pure essence in beholding the actuality of a slice of what the Pacific war is about.
It is not an anti-war film (e.g.Coming Home).
Correct-Japs committed Bushito-suicide charges instead if surrender. This was incorrectly depicted but the capture scene provided a look at the disseminated enemies futility not to surrender-
but to die slow deaths in a heap of scorched flesh bullet riddled and bleeding soon to be corpses finality.
Notable were that Marines extracted gold fillings from their enemy teeth;though the Japs committed a thousand times worst atrocities on POWs and civilians.
Adrian Brody did an excellent acting performance for not having any lines. He speaks with his eyes-pure terror with a thousand yard stare.
And John C Riley deserves to be noted as a credible member if the cast.
Having lived in the tropical jungles I comprehend what (know first hand) Jones harmoniously expression honoring natures spell expressed in poetic verse as homage to nature's bliss and human cruelty of destruction when war becomes a predator on the Innocent Indigenous who revered the cathedral grandeur of the tropics as their life source.
This is why it is one of my favorite films.