Monday, February 10, 2014

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

The first hour of this was stunning...elegiac scenes of locals living the rousseauvian natural life, in harmony with the world around them, subsisting on what they find, on what they grow. Contrast the soldiers with their machines of death, their rigid system of order, and orders...the brown uniforms in a green world, intruders. The men scared, running, dying, bleeding...war.

Again, elegant camera work, smooth steadicam shots, pauses to peer for a time at the other living critters going about their own savagery, their own little wars for survival.

Didn't like this when I saw it...liked it more this time. Then I was disappointed...I was expecting more...maybe hoping for too much after the brilliance of Days of Heaven. This time I appreciated his vision and sense of beauty...and, in part at least, the thematic content.

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