The Thin Red Line
From 1998, nominated for seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography), cut down from a surely genius six hours to a more manageable 170 minutes, and featuring so many A-list actors that a number of them didn't make it into the final cut of the film, Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line is a war movie not like any other. Bringing his love for the world and his curiosity about mankind's coexistence with the brutality of nature into the folds of an epic World War II drama about the men fighting for Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, Malick takes the time to focus his camera on the trees and on running water and on the local wildlife, because to him these things inform the men fighting for survival, life feeding into life, with death constantly in the air, looming, vast and inescapable, and this dread and angst unfolds throughout the movie. It's a masterwork of a film, brilliant in its layers and easily re-watchable. If you have the time anyway.
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