Better than Saving Private Ryan

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2004)

I remember go see this movie thinking about Saving Private Ryan (my first mistake) It really wasn't what wanted to watch but after the three shorter hours I been in a cinema I couldn't stop to think the rest of week about the one of the most beautiful and realistic movies I ever see. Terrence Mallick's masterpiece it's not just a war movie it's a poem about the peace, about the price we pay in every war and how the real enemy is not in the other side of the battle it is in this part of the heart who is losing his humanity in the path of chaos. Just a few days after watching this movie I went to see Saving Private Ryan and almost go out of the theater just twenty minute after the beginning of the movie, cos the memories of every good scene of The Thin Red Line, with less blood and so much realistic concepts still were in my mind. The power of this movie is in the beauty of the images and every character. Unlike Saving Private Ryan, there are no heroes here (in the flesh of big actors), no bad men just soldiers, dreamers fighting to keep the innocence where only darkness flows.