Reviews

"What it mean's to live and what it mean's to die" - The Thin Red Line - I didn't really understand the point of the movie title until I watched this movie. This movie encapsulates it's movie title better than any other movie I've watched. Going in I was thinking another war movie, however this movie is not about war so much as it is about the human experience set against that backdrop. The movie show's the viewer what it mean's to live and die all in 3 hours. And at 170 minute's long, my only complaint is that this movie was too short for me, I wanted more of this masterpiece film. Afterwards I watched Day's of Heaven and Badlands which just reaffirmed that Terrence Malick is a master film maker. More than that an inspiration and hero and painter of civilization using the medium of film. After having watched this movie 3 moth's ago I feel like a change man from before I watched it and I largely attribute that change to this movie, this movie changed me if only a little that is still a powerful thing.

I'd been waiting to watch a movie like Jacob's Ladder for a very long time, I thought the premise behind Jacob's Ladder was exponential, a man who die's and his life is taken away with illusions and memories examined, and the difference between reality, what's real and what's not is frequently at hand in the audience's mind. These idea's are perfectly directed by Adrian Lynne. This movie show's us the deep intimate value of this Jacob's life, contrastingly it also show's us how he is just another dead soldier who is almost nobody to any one else and will be forgotten by all except maybe just a few people who knew him well, but to even them this deeply personal man's existence still disappears as really only one man lived as Jacob Singer, Jacob Singer. The writing in this movie could've been a little more well developed, however the direction and premise is perfect so this movie deserves a perfect 10 out of 10. I wanted to write a movie along the line's of the premise of Jacob's Ladder, it was inspiring to see the premise I had on my mind on screen. The audience is always guessing figuring out what is going on, is insanity, is it a conspiracy, who is the bad guy, is it supernatural, is he dead.