Bill Benzon has just seen The Thin Red Line. Beautiful post. I haven't seen The Tree of Life (though many of you have ordered me to see it, sorry really busy still). But in my ecology and literature classes I do often teach that moment in The Thin Red Line, just before the raid on the Japanese machine gun position. The sun comes up over the hill, in silence. It's a shot with no reason. A thin red line meets the thin red line.
A Kantian shot, and OOO shot. It takes your breath away. Anyone who has meditated would want to jump up and cheer when they see that shot.
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