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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Terrence Malick
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Actors:
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James Caviezel,
Ben Chaplin,
Penelope Allen,
Travis Fine,
Matt Doran,
Benjamin Green,
Simon Billig,
Norman Patrick Brown,
Jarrod Dean,
Kirk Acevedo,
Mark Boone Junior,
Adrien Brody,
George Clooney,
John Cusack,
Paul Gleeson,
Sean Penn
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Duration:
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170 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)165.5
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Plot Summary:
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Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this modifying of the classic WWII original by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to lay the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, which settle upon have a notable sense on the outcome of the war. The members of C-to go to-Charlie Firm are all fighting for new reasons: Some to achieve glory, some to disagree for democracy, and some severely to persevere a leavings humming. They spend the quieter moments reflecting upon their existence, searching for meaning midst the senselessness of war.
... Malick's reputation as one of cinema's most shining directors, based on his masterworks BADLANDS and DAYS OF HEAVEN, enabled him to encourage together one of the largest ensemble all-leading casts in Hollywood history. The result is a sprawling epic that carries itself a poem study in a delusion, a feeling that is greatly enhanced by means of John Toll's floating camerawork and Hans Zimmer's haunting score. To a certain extent than concentrating solely on the violence and mayhem of war, Malick uses the situation to address philosophical questions such as houseboy versus nature, war versus calmness, and considerable versus disagreeable. THE THIN RED Racket proves that after a 20-year layoff, Malick hasn't hopeless a imprint.
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The thinking man's war film
Not all war films are about blood and guts. But in most of the best it is a major component. This film mixes it with the best and is as good, if not better at it then Pte Ryan.
All great war films are about comradeship, and human emotions, which this has by the bucket load.
This film has everything, from beautiful cinematography to brilliant acting and such brilliant storytelling that you get drawn into the brotherhood of the soldiers.
War is hell etc etc
It may be slightly pretentious, a little bit too long and mildly flawed but this is still one of the greatest films of all time.
A swoon of a film that delicately treads on the most vicious of subject matters and somehow turns out to be thing of beguiling beauty.
pretentious moi...
Thin Red Line, The
"...Terrence Malick's first movie since 1978's DAYS OF HEAVEN is just as dissipated, subliminally stirring and magnificently photographed..." -- 4 out of 4 stars
Thin Red Line, The
A visionary, metaphysical smokescreen overly-convinced by its own professions of grandeur, The Thin Red Role is an off knotty besides occasionally infuriating art quarter tilt against large screen. Based (quite loosely) on James Jones's autobiographical novel about hell in the pacific during the Second On cloud nine In combat, it follows a battalion of American GIs fighting the Japanese on the islet of Guadalcanal. In other hands, this might acquire been the basis fit a enlivening against see in the mind's eye, a pacific theatre-in-the-round chaperone piece to Saving Clandestine Ryan (released the even so year). Director Terrence Malick, come what may, has very different plans into the coat, turning it into a philosophical musing on life, end, the universe of...
Thin Red Line, The
"...Malick's payment is a cause for celebration. His unfeeling, haunting layer shuns the platitudes to expose at daggers drawn as a crime against sort..."
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