Some ten or fifteen minutes into Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) comes a shot that, perhaps for the first time definitively, announces the film as a great one, one that will marshal its full and considerable resources for something unseen before, something that will reinvent the capacities of narrative cinema.1
The film, it will not be controv…
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