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Those existential speculations don't derive from the screenplay's source, an archetypal but otherwise down-to-earth 1962 novel by James Jones (who also wrote From Here to Eternity ) about the American invasion of the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal.
A sampling: The founder of the Navy SEALs recalls his near-drowning at Guadalcanal, David Halberstam describes the military's spin apparatus in Vietnam, and Nancy Reagan reminisces about the first Reagan-Gorbachev summit.
Maybe then he'd view Guadalcanal not in an absurdist vacuum (the soldiers come, they kill and are killed, they leave) but in the larger context of a war that was among the most rational (in its aims, if not its methods) fought in the last several centuries.
Critics agreed that the big theme is World War II: Private Ryan , The Thin Red Line (about Guadalcanal), and Life Is Beautiful (about the Holocaust) were nominated for best picture.
But Staros is ultimately sent packing, and Malick never bothers to trace the effect of his action on the Guadalcanal operation.