The Thin Red Line is not a war movie per se. It is a literature movie comparing and contrasting the concepts of Romanticism and Realism. The ‘war’ is just the backdrop. If you are watching it as a war movie, you might be disappointed. It is a thinking man’s movie, an intellectual masterpiece upon the screen. Besides answering is Man Good or Bad, it also attempts to answer a line by John Donne cited in the movie: “No man is an island entire of itself.” Is that true? I don’t ‘dig deep’ because time proves finite, so I hope my brief comments here suffice. I encourage people to read literature reviews of the movie. I have a good literature review. I will look for it and repost it as a link.
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No amount of apologizing or excuse making is going to make up for the sheer magnitude of sucktard The Thin Red Line brings to the screen. As a person who immensly enjoys psychological movies, - especially the ones that leave the viewer with more questions than answers, - I can honestly say that if I am going to fall asleep IN THE THEATRE because the movie shows OVER AN HOUR of images of Flora whilst playing voice overs. That any literary message trying to be relayed, has FAILED MISERABLY, and thus deserves it’s level of disrespect and ill regard.
Watching tribal children swimming with grown men in crystal clear water, whilst playing eerily creepy psuedo erotic music, isnt going to convince me that the movie is somehow entertaining. I think the correct word for these scenes, is “Deplorable” and/or “Disgusting”.
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