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Jr. (2000) “‘Writing in his musical key’: Terrence Malick’s vision of The Thin Red Line,” Film Criticism, xxv: 2–24. Critchley, S. (2005) Things Merely Are. Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, London and New York: Routledge. Filippidis, M. com. Heidegger, M. (1969) The Essence of Reasons, trans. T. Malick, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. F. ), Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings, London and New York: Routledge. Jones, J. (1998a) From Here to Eternity, London: Hodder and Stoughton.

These two meanings are brought together later in the film by Colonel Tall, when he is in the process of dismissing Staros from his commission and justifying the brutality of war: “Look at this jungle, look at those vines, the way they twine around the trees, swallowing everything. ” Images of trees wrapped in vines punctuate The Thin Red Line, together with countless images of birds, in particular owls and parrots. These images are combined with the almost constant presence of natural sounds, of birdsong, of the wind in the Kunai grass, of animals moving in the undergrowth, and the sound of water, both waves lapping on the beach and the flowing of the river.

Because it was there, he felt, that the immortality he had not seen was hidden. ” This passage was brought to my attention by Cain 2000: 6. References Blanchot, M. (1994) L’instant de ma mort, Montpellier: Fata Morgana. E. Jr. (2000) “‘Writing in his musical key’: Terrence Malick’s vision of The Thin Red Line,” Film Criticism, xxv: 2–24. Critchley, S. (2005) Things Merely Are. Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, London and New York: Routledge. Filippidis, M. com. Heidegger, M. (1969) The Essence of Reasons, trans.

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