Thank you, Mr.Malick!

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2000)

My English is not very good, I don't have any experience in commenting films in English and I'm a novice in the Internet. I am glad to have an opportunity to read the comments about the film that made a great impression on me and I would like to thank Mr.Malick for his spectacular work. I saw "The Thin Red Line" in May,1999 on the large screen. I remember going out after the show absolutely shaken. That was very strong emotional reaction and I was fascinated by the visual row of the movie. It must be seen only on the large screen and after that you can see it again on video, although I wouldn't recommended the latter. As for the philosophy and ideas of "The Thin Red Line" I was pondering over them later. In this film you can not see the "hurray-patriotic pathos", so usual for the cinematography of Hollywood. It is not the movie about courageous American guys at the war. The nationality of the soldiers is not important here. In the grinder of war all are victims: you and your enemy, the nature, all the world. Everybody has their own God and say their praying but at the war their God doesn't hear them. One of the best episode of the film is the death of the author's alter ego. The very moment when he runs into Japanese we can see on his face the inevitability of the death and the desperate desire for living at the same time and it's acted perfectly. We don't see the instant of his physical death and thanks Malick that he didn't show it to us. In the mediocre director's hands it could have been a simple establishment of a fact, but Malick creates the real art here. This movie is not probably perfect in its form, but I don't want to discuss it. It's a real cinema of a genuine artist. Thank you very much, Mr.Malick!