The closer you are to Caesar, the greater the fear

Thin Red Line (1998), a mightily good war film by Terrence Malick. It's funny how it's epic and poetic yet catches the utter insanity of war to perfection. The story itself is pretty simple; U.S. forces gaining foothold in the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific during the second World War, destroying Japanese defense. But the way it's executed, it's almost mindblowing perfection and the cast knows no equal: Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thomas Jane, Elias Koteas, Jared Leto, Dash Mihok, Tim Blake Nelson, George Clooney, John C. Reilly, John Travolta and so on. Amazingly, scenes including Bill Pullman, Gary Oldman, Lukas Haas, Viggo Mortensen, Martin Sheen, Jason Patric and Mickey Rourke were left on the cutting room floor.