The Thin Red Line

During the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, a company of American soldiers confronts the Japanese on a Pacific island of devastating beauty. Terrence Malick's long-awaited return to filmmaking after a twenty-year absence is unlike any war film made before or since — less concerned with the mechanics of combat than with the philosophical ache beneath all violence, asking what nature makes of men, and what men make of each other.

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