Thin Red line is a moving on the turning point of the war in Guadacanal in the Pacific. It starts off in a island inhabbited by native people and a U.S. soldier went AWOL joined them and is living amongst them he captures and brought back to his company. the company is going to guadacanal to reinforce troops already there. Throughout the movie is changes views from one soldier to the next which is pretty hard to follow personally. It shows the frustration of an underaprecciated Colonel. As well as a captain that is weary of sending troops into battle. As they invade the island they have no trouble with resistance and they go through the jungles of the island climbing the mountains as they get higher and are moving at such a fast pace that water cant be brought up fast enough men are passing out witout it and its a struggle all through the movie. getting near the tops of the mountains Japaneese troups are dug in fox holes and trenches are stategically placed for ultimate destruction. The men of C company are pinned down and getting blown back by the Jappanese troups. When Colonel Tall demands that his soldiers go up the heart of the Japanese defenses but Captain Staros refuses saying he wont sacrifice his men like that. When Colonel gets up the mountain he has a word with all the troups asking a small band of volunteers to go up the mountain and attack seeing that the only way to do it. The men that volunteered make there way up the mountain and pick through the Japs up there killing all of them in fox holes and the trenches. With the hardest part of the battle being won the Colonel wants all troops to move forward at a faster pace still not having any water, but he insists with the men's new attitude and hope they can trample through the enemy forces. after the battle the Colonel confronts Captain Staros saying that he is relived of his duties of Captain making up a lie that he has malaria and go back to the states.
This movie was very hard to follow like I said early it kept changing from point of views. By the end of the movie I felt like the main character had shifted from the AWOL soldier Witt to Captain Staros. The movies is based on the book written by James Jones. It had a lot of famous actors Jon Travolta, Jim Caviezel, George Clooneyand many others. Overall all I liked the movie and would definetly watch it again to get a better hold on the everything. The main part of the movie was to show the morals of men at war I believe. The war scenes where pretty good I felt like it took to long for the action to get going it wasn't until nearly an hour in did the fighting actually begin. On a scale of one to ten I would rank it at a 6.5 to 7. BUt for any avid war movie fans i would recomend watching it.
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