Director: Terrence Malick
Year: 1998
Book by: James Jones
Adapted by: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: John Toll
A meditation on life, love and war, set in WWII during the Pacific battle for Guadalcanal.
Tremendously beautiful, masterfully directed, great cast. I love the way his camera isn't so focused on telling a narrative plot line, but more on letting the camera meditate on the idea of "something has gone wrong in paradise". The contrast between the paradise of the island and the hell of war is the central meditation here, and the ruminations of the soldier's inner dialogues is haunting.
Another masterpiece for Malick.
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