The Thin Red Line
In 1942, Witt was a US Army soldier who lived in that period with the locals of a small island in the South Pacific. Over time, he is discovered, where Witt is interrogated by a senior officer and sent back to his army unit. Now, Wet is actually fighting a battle with reality.
23 July 1961, Midland, Texas, USA
27 February 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
16 December 1967, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
25 August 1949, Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
26 December 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
30 March 1976, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
28 September 1966, Ireland
23 November 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
26 December 1964, Toyama, Japan
31 May 1960, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, USA
June 08, 2011
Though it is not only a great war film, perhaps not even primarily a great war film, it is assuredly a great war film.
May 13, 2011
...so gorgeous it feels as if it's being seen through heavenly eyes - at least until fresh hell rips across the screen.
May 11, 2011
Ultimately concerned less with specific tactical maneuvers or combat suffering than with the grand contradictions of life.
May 06, 2012
Lyrical, meditative and original, Malick's WWII film is one of the best war films ever made.
January 01, 2000
A film of brilliant pieces and dazzling shots!
February 21, 2014
One of the most harrowing of anti-war statements, and the most beautiful too.
January 01, 2000
Viewers will get lost in the wanderings of this dreamlike movie!
January 01, 2000
An uncannily timed movie phenomenon!
October 14, 2011
In the midst of life we may be in death, but the opposite is true as well.
January 01, 2000
A haunting, scattered reminiscence piece, where the mind is allowed to drift through its memories, and retrieve impressions of the beautiful and the hideous, the serene and the hysterical, the banal and the profound.
January 01, 2000
The thinking person's Saving Private Ryan.
February 09, 2006
It's a genuinely epic ciné-poem that essentially sidesteps history, politics and conventional ethics to deal with war as an absolute, inevitable and eternal facet of existence.
