The Thin Red Line

A group of young men from the Army Rifle Company ‘C-for-Charlie’ is deployed to fight in the Guadalcanal campaign. The horror of the Second World War brings the soldiers closer together, but as their group gets increasingly smaller, the original reason for the battle takes a backseat, and survival is the only thing that matters.

Adrian Martin: “Terrence Malick has done everything in his considerable power to free up the narrative lines of his films, opening them to poetic effects of polyphony, digression and meditation. When he does so within the template of the war film in The Thin Red Line, the result is indelible.”

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