•Still water can reflect a complete and real image. Only when people are quiet can they concentrate their thoughts. After we have watched an excellent movie, is it worth spending some time to recall and think about the deep meaning of the movie? • "The Thin Red Line" is undoubtedly worth it. The first time I touched Terrence Malick, the legendary director of the Harvard-Oxford Philosophy Department, I was impressed. Since the second feature film "Days of Heaven" It was 20 years after its release, and it was only in 1998 that he returned to the film industry with this work, bringing this most artistic and lyrical war film. The three-hour film has a slow rhythm, mixed with a lot of monologues, murmuring to himself, consciousness. Streaming clips, a large number of close-ups of islands, jungle landscapes and wild animals, shooting from an upward angle and slowly panning, show the natural environment like a nature documentary, and also focus on people in nature. The brilliant images and the core of philosophical thinking make people feel Immediately remember the director's unique style. It made me firm when I saw one third of it, this is a masterpiece comparable to Apocalypse Now, such a movie that I wanted to watch when I first entered college, but didn't pick it up until I graduated. A feeling of seeing each other late, regretful and fortunate. • It is such a seemingly boring and hypocritical art film, but it brings the best war scenes, such as the first offensive and defensive battle on the grass, the soldiers are like grass of different lengths on the hillside, swaying around by the artillery fire , let the bullet rain be cut into pieces, and feel the life like mustard, such as the dust splashed by shrapnel, the oppressive feeling of the bullet rain pouring down to the extreme, the huge gun sparks accompanied by loud noises and hot lights, rising billowing smoke, One after another blooming on the mountain, all they brought were screams and groans and flying flesh and blood. I saw the most instinctive fear of death on everyone's face. The chaos of war and the holy tranquility of nature split into two It happened in the same scene at the same moment. • A large number of monologues are whispering in their ears, to God, to nature, to mother, and to the audience, telling their own perceptions of this war and the world. But it all makes sense. Flashing back to your past in your mind, touching your lover, you are in front of your comrades in arms, they all have the same life, roughly the same body, the only thing that distinguishes them is their different souls, and in this battlefield , they all share the same fate. When an individual stands under the rose-like sunset, he can temporarily forget that he is at war and enter a fantasy world, where he can embrace the beautiful nature and lie in the arms of his lover. In the eyes of officers, war is for power, honor, and rank, to oppress subordinates to please their superiors. Make the wrong command without hesitation. In war, the power of one person is very small, one person is insignificant, the whole world is important, the war makes people crazy, neither side can bear failure, the soldiers gradually wake up, there are only lies here , How ridiculous is the so-called army for the family and the officer for the father, they only want us to sacrifice. There is no other good world, this is the only world, and all we have is this island. • Why are there so many wars in the world? Why do all things kill each other? Land and sea against each other, men and women against each other, is nature full of hatred? Do good and evil exist at the same time? We are afraid to face death, unable to imagine what happens when we die and what happens after we die? All things cannot escape death, only death is eternal, watching the loved one around you die silently, so quiet that you can't see the passing water, I hope you can face it calmly like her, maybe when the heart is calm , the spirit will be immortal. The world is destroying itself, you can turn a blind eye, think for yourself, or join the fight. If I go first, I will wait for you there, on the other side of death, but now, we still have the courage to fight, the strength to think, on this side of death, stay with me. • Can you represent justice and kindness? Hate and love, all come from the same heart and have the same face? Such a horrible evil, where did it come from? How can it be lurking in the world? What are the reasons and root causes? Who caused this? Who is killing all beings? Taking the fire of our lives, mocking our attachment to the world, is war good for the planet? Can it nurture all things and nurture all living beings? I will never forget the horror of war. Tragedy keeps repeating itself. War cannot bring us honor. It will only turn people into wild dogs and poison our hearts. The ugliness and bloody violence of war will make people lose their conscience. A family in this world, now we are killing each other and ruining each other's life, how can we lose our good nature, obliterate the conscience of heaven, and ignore human nature , Why can't we sublimate to the peak of glory? • The cast of this film is quite strong, Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, John Traver Erta, Jared Leto and a bunch of other familiar faces. The soundtrack also invited ace composer Hans Zimmer. Compared with Hans' other works, this time the soundtrack is a lot more subtle and doesn't have a particularly strong rhythm. The highly recognizable main theme can be used everywhere, rendering the atmosphere, the suspense during exploration, the tragic and solemn being suppressed by the bombardment of machine guns, the highness of launching a counter-offensive, and the peace and tranquility of the natural landscape and interspersed with good memories. In the end, the island was captured by the U.S. military from the Japanese army. The crocodiles that were lurking in the river at the beginning were tied up and transported to trucks. The former hunters became the prey, and the cycle of violence continued until one side stopped, otherwise the hunters They will not stop the war. • The title of the film is "The Thin Red Line", also known as the red warning line. There is only a thin red line between reason and madness. When we see the madness of war, we fall into pessimism about human nature, and we cannot forget the appearance on the other side of the red line. Just as love is equally crazy and politics is equally rational, the reason why many things are difficult to explain is that they are both on this line and horizontal. At both ends of the line, we are enjoying the fruits of the victory of the war while blindly criticizing the war itself, which is contradictory in itself, and the reason why human nature can show such a huge difference is precisely because this red line is too illusory and subtle. Clear boundaries, if we want to control ourselves, we have to go deep into our hearts to find the thin red line that belongs to us. • One day, I also want to be on a pristine island in the Pacific Ocean, kayaking and snorkeling, playing with local children, watching the sun penetrate the green leaves of the jungle, stroking huge trees wrapped in vines, bathing in the sea breeze, imagining what happened under my feet. A land war. Right now, I'm riding on the bank of the river, closing my eyes and breathing as hard as I can, filling my body with fresh air, and the scorching sun above my head is shining on my face through the shade of the trees, as if I have been in that world... •There are so many beautiful things Who would be willing to give up their life if they haven't seen it with their own eyes and experienced it with their own hands? The themes expressed by Malick: war, nature, life, love, illusory and vague, but all real, within reach, through the film, touch Terrence Malick, touch the thin the red line.
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