Review of The Thin Red Line (1998) by Huseyn B — 03 Oct 2012

Terrence Malick did not take off for 20 years. It would not be a sensation, you never know directors losers - if Malik was not recognized genius. In 1973, he was thirty Harvard graduate, a graduate student at Oxford, a journalist Newsweek, New Yorker magazine writer and professor of philosophy at Boston University, the largest MIT, put the "wasteland" of a pair of killers inhibited dakotskih prairies. Five years later came "Heavenly Days" about a love triangle in the time of harvest of the century. That was enough. Malik was elevated to the rank of the main hope of the new generation. He paused. Went to the farm for milk and never returned. Zhenya milked cows, counted the stars in the Texas sky. Twenty years later he returned to the "Thin Red Line" - large (2 h 40 min), overcrowding, awkward and completely inopportune war movie. Looks at one go. On the "creative success", however. But geniuses and should not be "creative success." Genius beyond any luck.

1943. Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific. The first major victory for the Americans in the war with the Japanese. Home attack the Marines finished talking "cleaning." 70 percent of the movie may be the longest stage in the history of the battle, the battle for the high number 209. Unlike anything that he had seen before. Colonel (Nolte), hopelessly labeling: a general, ordered the soldiers to march to the guns. Captain (Koteas) is not ready to manage people's lives and refuses to commit suicide squad. Cynical sergeant (Penn) is forced to reconsider their beliefs. Enlightened ordinary (Kavizel) wants to be where the bad. Alienated ordinary (Chaplin) recalls the hands of his wife. There are half a dozen important characters. Many hear the inner voice. Stretched around a fantasy world, a haven of indescribable, heavenly harmony. When the sun is spilled cream, slowly fill with leaf sedge, especially do not want to die.

Just like any real movie, "The Thin Red Line" of time. More precisely, for one moment, stretched by light years. This is the moment before death. All of this beauty is seen devastatingly clear. And do not understand. As if Malik woke up after 20 years of hibernation, opened his eyes and looked, and what a stupid thing-war. But things are not so simple. Malik remembers that no war can not be harmony in nature. Between two poles, impotent despair and peaceful wisdom, are the other issues the film: "What binds us together?", "Where are the limits of self-deception?", "Who makes the choice?". Malik did not give the answers, because I do not know. These geniuses are different from ordinary talents.