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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1998

The Thin Red Line

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Rating: 64
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64Watch it awake.

Worth an evening for adults. The grass and the fear are both the point. It is not a lesson plan.

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The review

Terrence Malick's Guadalcanal is not the campaign lecture. Private Witt goes absent inside a beauty he cannot keep, and the company is sent up a ridge into fire that does not care about his question. Captains and colonels want the hill for reasons that are partly the war and partly their own names. The soldiers want water and not to die.

Adults. A patient older teen can try it if someone will talk through the voiceover instead of mocking it. Do not use it to say that war is only a mistake of nature. The nature in the film was already there. The men brought the argument. Ask which of those two sentences you believe when the ridge is taken and the film still will not celebrate.

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The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Letters from Iwo Jima

76 instead of 64

Letters from Iwo Jima is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The letters are how a household survives a man it will not see again.

The eight

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Industry
The company has a job: take the hill. The film keeps losing the job to look at a leaf, which is honest and also a refusal.
5
Household
Witt's marriage is a memory. The unit is the only household present, and it is not a gentle one.
7
Piety
The questions are religious whether or not a church is in the frame. What is a soul for, here.
7
Courage
Men are brave and men freeze. The film will not rank them for you.
5
Republic
The Army is officers who need a hill. The film does not build a republic out of that.
7
Temperance
The battle is long and then it is over. It is not edited as a reward.
8
Truth
Fear, cruelty, and mercy are all allowed to be true in the same hour.
6
Stewardship
What it hands on is a question, not a verdict. A house has to finish the sentence.

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Film · Universal · 2019

1917

64Watch it awake.

A message carried through a broken country. The courage is not the camera. The courage is the errand.

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The review

Schofield is not chosen because he is special. He is chosen because he can run and because he has a brother in the line, which is a questionable reason for a general to use and an understandable one for a soldier to accept. The film's gamble is to stay with the body that has to cross the ground. When it becomes a stunt, it thins. When it stays an errand, it is about duty under a command that is not always worthy of the men.

Older teenagers and adults. Do not let the technique be the conversation. The conversation is a piece of paper that can save lives if a tired man will keep walking. Most of moral life is closer to that than to a speech.

Journal

Keep 1917 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Letters from Iwo Jima

76 instead of 64

Letters from Iwo Jima is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The letters are how a household survives a man it will not see again.

The eight

7
Industry
A runner's job: keep the paper dry, keep moving, do not become the story.
4
Household
A brother in the other company is the private reason. The public reason is the sixteen hundred.
3
Piety
A song in a wood, a ruined town. Reverence flickers and is not a sermon.
9
Courage
He goes on after the man he came with is dead. The order still stands.
8
Republic
The plot is a chain of command that can save or waste a regiment. He is trying to make it save them.
6
Temperance
The single shot is a feat and a temptation. The dying is not a trick.
7
Truth
The attack is a mistake. Delivering that fact is the whole truth of the mission.
7
Stewardship
If he gets there, other men get a tomorrow. That is the only legacy the film is interested in.

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