![]() ![]() ![]() The soundtrack allows us to hear the thoughts of the characters, but there is no conviction that these characters would have these thoughts. It's like horror seen through the detachment of drugs or dementia. It is, in fact, sort of fascinating: a film in the act of becoming, a field trial, an experiment in which a dreamy poet meditates on stark reality. The movie's schizophrenia keeps it from greatness (this film has no firm idea of what it is about), but doesn't make it bad. ![]() My guess is that any veteran of the actual battle of Guadalcanal would describe this movie with an eight-letter word much beloved in the Army. This leads to an almost hallucinatory sense of displacement, as the actors struggle for realism, and the movie's point of view hovers above them like a high school kid all filled with big questions. The actors in "The Thin Red Line" are making one movie, and the director is making another. ![]()
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