3. THE THIN RED LINE
errence Malick’s 1998 film begins with a shot of a crocodile slowly submerging its sizeable girth into a waterhole choked with vibrant green duckweed. As the croc disappears from view, birdsong of the jungle is drowned out by Hans Zimmer’s swelling score. The film closes, after we see battered and beleaguered soldiers being evacuated off Guadalcanal island, with a serene vision of a beach at low tide. In the foreground, slightly to the
