The Thin Red Line

"Terrence Malick is the director of two of the best films I have ever seen..." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

With 'The Thin Red Line' (1998) Terrence Malick created one of the most complicated, but also best movies of the last years. In his dramatic World War II movie, featuring the battle for the Guadalcanal Island in 1942, he and his cinematographer combine the horror of war and the beauty of the island with great perfection. This movie with a philosophical theme became my favorite for last year. It goes directly into the minds of the soldiers and reveals their thoughts and doubts in their mission. Speaking frankly for me it is hard to describe why I like 'Thin' that much. I think that everyone has to find it out for himself. The ones will love it, like me, the other won't, or even hate it.
'The Thin Red Line' has been compared with 'Saving Private Ryan' quite often recently and many critics as well as normal viewers think that Spielberg's movie is better. For me it is not. 'Ryan' is a much too patriotic and american-styled so it cannot be complete neutral as 'The Thin Red Line', where no difference is drawn between the Americans and the Japanese. Altogether this film became a piece of art, great cinematography, great directing, great screenplay adaptation and a great cast.
Final thing: all these stars in the movie (Travolta, Clooney, Harrelson) who appear only for a couple of minutes are of course used by Malick to provoke to audience. This shows that he gives a **** to Hollywood and the Academy Awards, where he was not present. These things make a good director!

71st Annual Academy Awards (1998)

	Nominated for Picture 1998
	Nominated for Director 1998: Terrence Malick
	Nominated for Adapted Screenplay 1998: Terrence Malick
	Nominated for Original Dramatic Score 1998: Hans Zimmer
	Nominated for Cinematography 1998: John Toll
	Nominated for Film Editing 1998: Billy Weber, Leslie Jones
	Nominated for Sound 1998

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