Reality and humanity

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2005)

This is the best movie I have ever seen (now around 20 times). Though it lacks many aspects of the book forcibly due to length, no other movie, not even Apocalypse Now captures war as vividly or with such harsh reality. Though by no means bloodless, The Thin Red Line doesn't rely on blood and gore to capture the evil, rather focusing on war as a whole, developed by a constant spiritual and emotional narrative by many of the main characters. Beyond this, the movie captures humanity with near perfection. Unlike the heroism that burdens war movies like Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, The Thin Red Line approaches soldiers from the opposite view...no individual is more than mind, body and soul...humanity is the inevitability of breaking. And then, of course, there is war...How did we lose the good that was given us? Let it slip away; scattered, careless.