NL East: The Thin Teal Line

Miami Marlins

Philosopher-turned-filmmaker Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line depicts the grueling, awful stuff of war backdropped by a paradise of natural beauty. The World War II film emphasizes the internal lives of its characters and their struggles contending with the grim irrationality of combat as a group of American forces attempts to take an entrenched Japanese position on Guadalcanal. It is often praised as one of the best war movies ever made, but some find it slow and erratic—a few highlights interspersed by a lot of thinking, planning, arguing, and waiting.

That sporadic action roughly mirrors Malick’s early career trajectory. Despite being one of the most celebrated American directors of the 20th (and now 21st)...

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