Genre: Action / Drama / War
Length: 2h 50m 0s
Director: Terrence Malick
Tagline: Every man fights his own war.
Plot outline: In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them. Summary written by Julian Reischl {julian.reischl@stud.uni-muenchen.de} Grande sconfitto alla serata degli Oscar, assente dagli schermi da oltre vent'anni, il "vecchio leone" Terence Malick ha composto una sinfonia sull'assurdità e sull'orrore della guerra, passando anche attraverso il rapporto dell'uomo con la natura. Siamo a Guadalcanal, durante la guerra nel Pacifico, ed un plotone di fucilieri statunitensi ha ricevuto l'ordine di conquistare una collina dalla quale i giapponesi controllano l'isola. Ci sono le azioni di guerra, le battaglie, con la macchina da presa che segue le truppe passo per passo. Ma c'è anche l'umanità di soldati non del tutto consapevoli della follia cui vanno incontro e c'è la natura tanto maltrattata eppure così magica. E non è soltanto un film di guerra. E' un film sull'anima dei soldati, con le loro riflessioni interiori e la loro meravigliosa voglia di esistere. Summary written by rosebud6
Comment: The Inevitable Comparison of "The Thin Red Line" to "Saving Private Ryan" can be summed up like this... "The Thin Red Line" is to "Saving Private Ryan" as "Full Metal Jacket" is to "Platoon" All great films. All very different. This movie is nothing short of brilliant. If you didn't like it, I can understand why. Often brilliance is dismissed as rubbish because nobody really expects it to be there. Don't be fooled, it is there. I have seen it twice now. There is nothing rubbish in this film. Like great writers and poets command example and metaphor to tell an idea, so too does this film to tell emotion and irony in extreme circumstance. Nothing on the surface of this film matters. The narrative exists twenty feet below the level we normally watch films at. And it lasts for days. This film ranks with "Apocalypse Now", "Das Boot", "Platoon", "All Quiet on the Western Front", "Full Metal Jacket", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Ran" as the best war films ever made. Sorry, I will share no details on the film. Only to tell you that everybody from script, to production design, to music score, to acting, to direction, was right on the ball with this one. My Pick for best film of the year Also my pick for top ten films of the 90's to date and top 20 films of all time. $8 (out of $8) see it twice, you won't regret it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Country: Canada
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CDs: 0
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| Actors: | ||
| Sean Penn | as | 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh |
| Adrien Brody | as | Cpl. Fife |
| James Caviezel | as | Pvt. Witt (as Jim Caviezel) |
| Ben Chaplin | as | Pvt. Jack Bell |