the thin red line in gravity's rainbow

[george kolliopoulos]

chris wrote:
>     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."
     
     
   One can say this for all Malick's films. They're not so much about the
period of time they're dealing with but about an archetypal quest, the quest
of a human being -call him Slothrop or whoever- trying to discover how many
freedom is out there for him...(some call it the Hero Myth).
"Breathless" by Jim Mc Bride is another good example of this kind of quest.
This is why I wait so impatiently for "The Thin Red Line":I expect to see a
plot beyond the war and not about the war.


a devoted fan of Malick's world

gkoll
           


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