The Thin Red Line
A war film by Terrence Malick, sounds like a contradiction but the Malick-ness wins, it’s slow and soothing. Half of it it’s shots of weird jungle animals, Melanesian people enjoying life in a remote island away from the big brouhaha of modern cities, or soldiers on leave frolicking with said natives.
There is a massive cast, but most big name appear in just a couple of scenes, most of the time in only one. Even the ones with more screen time don’t do much of anything. It’s deeply contemplative film with voiceover rhetorical questions, for three hours.
Hans Zimmer scored this, so he can be not bombastic, he just don’t wants to. That was the big shocker, I really though he never had the capacity for doing something lowkey.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.