Title: Malick gets lost in his own artistic skills.
Product review: I cannot deny that Terrance Malik is a master with the camera. The visual imagery in The Thin Red Line is remarkable, but as I watched this movie I had the sense that Malik was just being overtly self-indulgant. I have a feeling that if the studio would have let him, Malik would have added another three hours to a film I frankly stopped caring about after 20 minutes.What is the story of war if it isn't about the individuals who fight it? Malik tries to tell some deeply emotional stories, but in the end I didn't care about what happened to any of the characters because I lost any interest in them during Malik's mushy and unmoving narrative.I don't mind films with unconventional methods of storytelling, but in the end, The Thin Red Line played like a three hour Haiku. I think I understood what Malik was trying to do, I just think he failed miserably at it.
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