The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in C Company, and in particular, those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, and Ben Chaplin.
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In every movie, the director had about 10minutes to introduce a few things.
The Main character, The Reason of him in the movie, The Settings.
When? Was it a story talking about the future? Was is about the pass? Or the story is in this century of time. Where? The director trying to let the audience know where is the story happening. Some country on earth? Outer Space?
Why and How about the story line. Why is he the main character or How did the incident happened causing the rest of the story line.
In this movie, The Thin Red Line.the first 10 minutes of the movie, clear can be identify the main character, as well as the Time, Place, etc.
The main character was clearly show because he appear on the screen the most and he was the most out-standing among the rest.
The shots of the calm forest, river scenery and Indigenous peoples's actions told us this happened some rural area on earth.
Slowly it start to tell that the story was relate to World War II, that told us the date of the story.
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For me, film appreciation is to appreciate there needs to be an understanding in a film and help us to understand the key dynamics of what the film is made up of. It would be to reflect on it and to appreciate it.
The Thin Red Line Movie is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II.
The first 10 minutes of the movie, there is more happening in this opening sequence than just an introduction to the film’s characters and storyline, We get a taste of how the rest of the film will flow. The Thin Red Line is essentially a character study of the way war affects a company of men who have never stepped foot in a war zone before. The opening scene is a dreamy representation of the calm before the storm. The opening scene shows the love and peace such as love from a mother to her child, love between two lovers, a love between one and your God.
The opening sequence of The Thin Red Line finds two American soldiers AWOL among a group of South Pacific islanders. One of these soldiers, Private Witt (Jim Caviezel), supplies the movie its primary narrative voice, though the ensemble is so large and points of view alternate so frequently that nothing like a main character or "star" can truly be identified. Witt regularly rhapsodizes over the beauty of nature and the bliss of evading combat, though he is not so facile as to overlook the forces of conflict and antagonism that exist everywhere in the world, even outside the state of war.
"What is this war in the heart of nature?" he apostrophizes in voice-over.
"Why does nature vie with itself?" Shots of a crocodile slinking beneath the surface of a river and of muscular vines overtaking the jungle's large trees reiterate how the world is tough, crowded, and full of encroaching predators.
From the scene, I know that the men appreciate life for what it is. Fear grips them when they are recaptured and ordered back to the combat zone.