More significantly, and unlike Saving Private Ryan, it also seems determined to evade the mythopoeic impulse-that which makes a film larger than life and proffers it to stand in for history.Īdapted from James Jones’s 1962 novel, The Thin Red Line chronicles the experiences of the men of Charlie Company who are part of the American force charged with seizing the strategically important tropical island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in 1942-43. Like Malick’s Badlands and Days of Heaven, it is spare, fleet, elliptical, and establishes a careful middle-distance from the circumstances of its characters, disarming the processes of audience identification and implication for all but the briefest of moments. There has truly never been a film about modern war quite like this one: a kind of lyric epic poem about the way men are transformed for good by the experience of war, carefully balancing romanticism and dispassion, action and introspection. How to Fall Into Oblivion and Take Your Movie With You By Milton Moses Ginsberg
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