![]() ![]() ![]() The Thin Red Line is a movie rife with symbolism. Martin Scorsese was right: it's one of the best films of the 1990s. This is a motion picture that plays like a prayer, probing the duality of the human spirit, showing the struggles of numerous characters as the war and Mother Nature play out indifferently around them. The years have not lessened the effect of its visual poetry. Backed by an all-time great Hans Zimmer score, the movie went into limited release in late December 1998. ![]() We are now another twenty years removed from his comeback film, the star-studded World War II epic, The Thin Red Line. After helming two landmark New Hollywood films in the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, Malick did indeed go on hiatus for twenty years. There was a time, however, when a Terrence Malick film was more of an event, one that might only come along once every two decades. Some have accused those films of playing as little more than extended cologne commercials, with movie stars cavorting to classical music. Since the late-career peak of The Tree of Life in 2011, Malick has raised his output significantly, releasing a swift succession of films. ![]()
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