Thin Red Line (1998)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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A poetic, impressionistic and almost-silent war movie that uses facial expressions and snatches of overheard dialogue to forcibly communicate the stress and humanity of war.

An all-star cast of strongly-purposeful faces gets across the feelings and thoughts of the characters more effectively than mere acting. The actors use sheer willpower and star presence to suggest what they really feel and how their emotions came about. The essence of this journey through physical combat is that the same experiences affect different people in wildly-differing ways and of how this brings out their essence as humans – be that good or bad.

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This movie never falls prey to the all-too-easy, war-is-hell clichés; preferring to show that fighting forces each man to confront himself and that many do not like the inevitably-painful self revelations.

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