The Thin Red Line.(Twentieth Century Fox, 1998) Terrence Malick's recreation of James Jones' novel about the fight for Guadalcanal is a thoughtful, though often disjointed meditation on the savagery Savagery Apache Indians once fierce fighting tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 123] bandersnatch imaginary wild animal of great ferocity. [Br. Lit. of war, a savagery directed as much against life itself as against the enemy's forces. Like Oliver Stone's Platoon platoon Principal subdivision of a military company, battery, or troop. Usually commanded by a lieutenant, it consists of 25–50 soldiers organized into two or more squads led by noncommissioned officers. and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse apocalypse (əpŏk`əlĭps) [Gr.,=uncovering], genre represented in early Jewish and in Christian literature in which the secrets of the heavenly world or of the world to come are revealed by angelic mediation within a narrative Now, the camera in Malick's film is enchanted en·chant tr.v. en·chant·ed, en·chant·ing, en·chants 1. To cast a spell over; bewitch. 2. To attract and delight; entrance. See Synonyms at charm. with the lushly sensual beauty of the South Pacific, a paradiselike terrain that evokes Eden. Here nature is pristine, peaceful, and richly, thickly alive--at least until man and the beast of war arrive. Malick's characters struggle to make sense of this madness, to understand their place, to hang onto dreams that might make them human or protect them from despair. [Merely Motal] |
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