For Your ReConsideration: The Thin Red Line (1998)

OscarWatch Podcast

Terrence Malick's sumptuous meditation on combat asks many questions, and Amy and Steve are here to answer them as best we can with this look at (yet another) 1998 Best Picture nominee, The Thin Red Line. Our hosts bunker down and attack the hill of storytelling and what moments matter and are required in your film. What is the strength in asking a question - especially one you never intend to answer? Or, does Malick actually answer it and perhaps we are too thick to see it? Maybe. More likely, we're getting blinded by how beautiful James Caviezel is in this film. Seriously, call us! Finally, who the hell wasn't in this movie?! Of course, we ask: is this the World War II film that deserves the recognition that year? All that and more, this week on the podcast. If you don't write us, let us feel the lack. We hope you do, though. Write us at [e-mail] and find us on social media @oscarwatchpod Next week, we reconsider David Lean...again!