Review of The Thin Red Line (1998) by Dileepr. — 20 Mar 2006
One of the great films of a great filmmaker. Patient, frightening, daunting. It best captures the random horror and pointlessness of war, sometimes the shock erupting from boredom. The context-less death.
The meaninglessness of a 'mission' or any moral framework given to industrial murder, what we call war. It might even be necessary at times, but this is one of the few films that isn't a hallmark card to the participants; it's a simulcrum of what they went through, the price of it all.
No one who advocates war, especially those that want to beat their chests about the might of this nation, should do so without understanding what this film captures: the price of conflict, the horror of warfare.
This review of The Thin Red Line (1998) was written by Dileepr. on 20 Mar 2006.
The Thin Red Line has generally received very positive reviews.
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