The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick[image error]

Storytelling is a form of communication, and like any form of communication it has languages. Telling a story around a campfire uses its own vocabulary of sights and sounds to convey emotion. Books have their own. Movies have yet another.

Yet, storytelling is such a large thing, that even different mediums can have their own dialects. An action movie isn’t told the same way as a small family drama. Action movies have different ways to edit, convey sound and emotion than most o...