Thin Red Line

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2005)

This is one of the first war films I watched and truly felt that a director actually believed that war is an Una-glorified undignified approach of mankind ,this film was directed by a poet, and it shows. This film shows how both sides suffered physically and mentally with war, and it also shows men doing something very strangely in a war move, showing emotion; near the end of the film after the Americans assault a Japanese base, an American soldier goes round pulling out Japanese soldiers teeth and in one very touching scene he kneels down and says to the dying soldier "Your gonna die now,... see those birds they;ll eat you alive" ... later the Japanese soldier responds "What are you to me?...nothing" , much later on the American soldier looks at the gold teeth and breaks down crying after hearing the dying words of the Japanese soldier, a very touching scene. This film gets you involved emotionally , especially because you see and hear the soldiers thoughts.
The way the film is shot is very dream like and beautiful. Overall really I love this film , apart from Das Boot and Stalingrad , no film has dignified war as being a traumatic not glorified and terrible chapter that mankind repeatedly does and never learns from.