Monday, January 18, 2010

The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick

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.
Sunairi: Deep film with such an attitude about war as meaningless killing of its own alley as well as enemy. Have to watch again since I missed so many words whispered by soldiers. But I got the vibe of intense situations of war.

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