The Thin Red Line (1998) -- Thin Red Line,
spiritual videosSet during the American invasion of Japanese-held Guadalcanal, this war film drifts between the human and the transcendent. At once beautiful and horrific, this Terrence Malick masterpiece hints at that which simultaneously threatens to destroy and liberate us. The stunning visual images and Rumi-like voice overs make this a meditation in film.

Train: Who are you who live in these many forms? You're death that captures all. You too are the source of all that's gonna be born. You're glory, mercy, peace, truth. You give calm a spirit, understanding, courage, the contented heart.

Witt: One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain, that death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man see that same bird, feels the glory, feels something smiling through it.

Welsh: If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. A glance from your eyes and my life will be yours.

Witt: O my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining.

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