one of the most beautiful films i've ever seen

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2002)

I don't understand the negativity towards this film. As a separate entity from the book and from any other war film, The Thin Red Line is nothing short of beautiful. It is a meditation on conflict. Not just on war, but on conflict. The photography and the film score are outstanding. It's hard for me to recall another film with as much power in those two areas. I've never read the book, so I can't make any comparisons, but I think people need to understand that film and literature are different and people have different interpretations. It is unfair to justify a film being bad because it wasn't exactly like the book it was taken from. Stanley Kubrick's films were never like the book, he put his own interpretations in and they were always totally different than anyone else's! That's what makes filmmaking and film watching so marvelous. In my opinion, The Thin Red Line is one of the greatest films ever made, end of story.