The best war movie

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2003)

Alright, it does rank up there together with "Apocalypse Now", but these very different two run circles around Private Ryan and company. (Nothing against commerce and audience-tailoring, but it can't aspire to make an impact.)
The messages that Terrence Malick has succeeded to get across:

War is two parties of silly boys having a fight... And warlords of these times are very far from the men doing the fighting.

The death of someone is the more lamentable and pointless because war will have no impact on this planet and life is so beautiful. (Of course, this may change with a world nuclear war.)

In war, human mind goes through so much, memories of life back there, a reality here, which is fights, orders and deaths, another reality here, which is the nature.

etc. (Anyone welcome to publish your own observations.)

Both the master-work of photography, dramatic and poetic, and music, soothing, harmonic, slow and calm, underline the contrast of life and war.
The movie is so beautiful.