"Wars don't ennoble men, it turns them into dogs, poisons the soul."

Rating: 9/10 (30 July 2019)

"What's this war in the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? The land contend with the sea? Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power, but two?"

These first lines ar the main theme of this astonishing film "The Thin Red Line". The particular movie is so effective and immersive because of a technique that the visionary director Terrence Malick uses in multiple of his films. In various parts in the film we actually get to hear the thoughts and worries of various characters as they are all faced with the insane madness and cruelty of the nature of war.
They all question about death, their lives and the thing noboody can quite grasp is how this one and only world can be so beautiful and dark at the same time?The war takes place literally in the heart of nature. We get tranquil pictures and astonishing shots of peace and bless. The light of the sun passing through leaves, crystal clear lakes and sees, animals climbing and living in this enviroment, humans being a family...
And then all these heavenly images are torn apart by bombs and bullets. Eveything alive turns into dead in a second. In war there is no sign of peace or life. We see that war turns mosot of the men either into mad killermen or into beings who have lost any hope and war has taken all the love and beauty from their young soles. And our protagonist claims that no-there is a better world, a shining one and human can still be one.
This film is not about events or hisotry dates. It is never informative or aims at telling a historic event with clearness and truth. Rather than that, it astonishes the viewer with its shocking cinematography-both the beauty of nature and the futility of war are shown-its maybe even impossible to answer questions about the start and end of war,love,us.... and it is like a living soul whispering to our ears and sharing the dark truths of a grand universe. Nobody ever won in a war. We all lost a part of ourselves and a part of our world.
"This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?"
Beautiful, tender and immersive