Title: Thin Red Line vs. Private Ryan
Product review: These two films have been one of the most compared films in recent memory. The majority of moviegoers who see either Thin Red Line or Saving Private Ryan pick the latter as the superior film, but I assure you almost all educated, experienced moviegoers prefer Thin Red Line. Personally, I prefer Red Line. It may not be as brutal, realistic or emotional as Saving Private Ryan, hell it Ryan may even be the better film, but Thin Red Line was an original film. Instead of taking the normal bloody route great war films usually take, it took the poetic, much more intellectual path. Also, like "Contact", it explored and questioned the true value of human life and nature of living things, while Ryan made its own conclusions with in-your-face Hollywood situations and left little room for true discussion. Terrence Malick may well be the next Stanley Kubrick. His quiet, beautiful, confident attempt at storytelling in this film reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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