For example, his use of symbolism has been much criticized but everything has a purpose e.g. To tell these stories Terence Malick used symbolic imagery, flashback, voice-overs, passages without dialogue, long close-ups of the actors' faces, changes in tempo and a haunting score. Therefore, nature is both beautiful and cruel. 3) man is not distinct from nature but a part of it. If you believe that there are things even worse in the world than war (genocide, rule by the Axis powers) then war is not irrational, but the paradox mentioned above exists. We know that in war they will see and do things that will turn them into the very "savages" that we are trying to prevent from destroying our civilization. 2) the fundamental paradox of war: to protect "civilization" (all that we hold dear) we are prepared to send young men to fight in wars.
James Jones used this analogy to tell the story of how young American soldiers with no battlefield experience become bloodied veterans. It uses one of the most complex narrative structures yet produced by cinema to tell three stories (yes, it DOES have a plot): 1) the one the book wanted to tell (the book's title comes from a 19th century allusion to the British Empire's infantry whose small numbers managed to 'protect' the British from the countless hordes of "savages" which the Empire ruled (this concept is regrettably racist). The "Thin Red Line" is not an easy film to understand.
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