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| | The Thin Red Line |
 | | The film concentrates on mood and tone, crafting a world which alternates between light and darkness, fire and water, earth and air, and in which the rituals and dramas of battle are seen as an unholy disruption to the natural order which shatters man's relationship with the environment (and, by somewhat pantheistic inference, with God). |
 | | On the level of performance, each of the actors deliver authentic characterisations, with Nolte and Penn particular standouts in a large cast which includes cameos from John Travolta, John Cusack and George Clooney. |
 | | "There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad" explains the saying which gives the movie its title, and it is on this line (the front line of the battle for Guadalcanal), that most of the action takes place. |
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