The Thin Red Line compared to World War II (tutor's comment: i like that you see the comparison and soldiers do have dreams of something other than the hell they face.)
Title: The Thin Red Line compared to World War II (tutor's comment: i like that you see the comparison and soldiers do have dreams of something other than the hell they face.)
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 602 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Thin Red Line compared to World War II (tutor's comment: i like that you see the comparison and soldiers do have dreams of something other than the hell they face.)
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 602 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The movie The Thin Red Line has a thin relation to World War II in the conventional sense. The battle of Guadalcanal is illustrated only briefly in the three hour movie. The underlying tone of the movie is more philosophical than historical. While the battle is related with some accuracy to the actual events in August of 1942, the movie really concentrates on comparing the beauty of nature to the brutality of war. The soldiers in …showed first 75 words of 602 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 602 total…green, rich hillsides of the island are changed to dead, burning grounds littered with bodies. The movie also shows the humaneness of the individual soldiers compared to the unfeeling slaughter from the army as a whole. The movie looks at the war from a perspective that is not wide-spread. The war is often times seen as a valiant effort to maintain peace, but the movie looks at it as a violent charade taking countless lives.