the thin red line in gravity's rainbow

[ckaratnytsky]

     A resonant snippet from Jim Hoberman's Village Voice review of "[t]he 
     year's most enigmatic studio release, written and directed by one of 
     the most puzzling figures in Hollywood":
     
     "...although The Thin Red Line gives a real--if necessarily 
     idealized--sense of an American army in action, there is a sense in 
     which Malick's movie is not so much about World War II as about a 
     particular existential condition."
     
     
     Chris