Terrance Malick's "The Thin Red Line" is just great. It was overshadowed by Saving Private Ryan which is a just as powerful film but I feel that The Thin Red Line is a better movie. Unknown people like Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas give beautiful performances. Nick Nolte and Sean Penn are excellent. To me, every actor was worthy of an academy award nomination. The film itself is beautiful. The camera work shows just what Malick wants. He wants visual art. What we see on screen is nothing but beautiful visual poetry. Ben Chaplin scenes, when talking of his wife, are just great. But in my opinion, it is Jim Caviezel who gives the best performance of the film. He shows the innocence, the lonliness, the depression of PFC Witt. All in all the best pic of the year and one of the best war films ever made, if not the best. The top three are Platoon, The Thin Red Line, and Saving Private Ryan