The Thin Red Line
In 1942, Private Witt is a U.S. Army absconder living peacefully with the locals of a small South Pacific island. But when he is discovered, Witt is debriefed by a senior officer and returned to an active duty unit preparing for what will be the Battle of Guadalcanal which gives him an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of life, death, God, and courage.
28 June 1966, Evanston, Illinois, USA
22 February 1969, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
24 September 1943
24 May 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 July 1963, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
February 21, 2014
One of the most harrowing of anti-war statements, and the most beautiful too.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
Viewers will get lost in the wanderings of this dreamlike movie!
January 01, 2000
An uncannily timed movie phenomenon!
January 01, 2000
The thinking person's Saving Private Ryan.
January 01, 2000
A film of brilliant pieces and dazzling shots!
May 06, 2012
Lyrical, meditative and original, Malick's WWII film is one of the best war films ever made.
May 11, 2011
Ultimately concerned less with specific tactical maneuvers or combat suffering than with the grand contradictions of life.
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.
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.
