Hans Zimmer 'Light'

Hans Zimmer "Light" (The Thin Red Line)

Composed by Hans Zimmer, additional music by Klaus Badelt & John Powell, conducted and compiled by Gavin Greenaway and orchestrated by Bruce Fowler & Yvonne S. Moriarty.

[SergioBlackDolphin]

I sent this song to my Mum, , one of he last times I had a call with her as she was at the hospital. This is a song from the Thin Red Line's soundtrack, A Terence Malick's war movie. Very underrated in my very humble opinion. 
As I am due to leave her 'empty' home I find myself thinking of all the times I left and was hoping not to be the last time. As frail as you were for so many years. it is hard to find peace and I know such void will stay with me for some time, forever, while carving itself into different shapes and sizes.
Don't get me wrong, I use some degree of stoicism and self preservation, I just need to keep holding myself from elaborating such loss "all at once" as a service to protect myself and also my son. It comes in waves as clouds come and go, rain pours down a few seconds while we think about her, and a glimpse of light come out with those rays that my grandma said her girl were "the fingers of god reaching us".
She was at the hospital, and she wasn't allowed to see anyone due to covid restrictions, not yet lifted. She has fought a war as frail as she could be in that moment, she was sending messages and letters to us. It seems she was preparing for it, while hoping and fighting. I am unsure if really they did all they could to save her. We felt powerless. Did they step into her light? 
She liked the song but I don't know if she could really listen to it, surrounded by all the noise and devices around her hears and head. My Mum was born into a Christian-Catholic family and society, she later became an atheist. She was born from a father who fought one of the most cruel battles of the first world war and later died due to the injuries as my mum was very young. She became a teacher, a pedagogy teacher. She kept her sense of community and dived into others', and kept her respect and supporting for others. The small things were very important for her. In the last weeks, and especially in the last days, she found peace praying, with her friends, with my sister, some times at night. There is a lot about about religion in Terence Malick's movies. But there is more, a deep sense of meaning and spirituality that goes beyond the religious norm, often harmed by the "meaning of ownership". That's so close to me, and very close to Mum, Mum who - not just - with photography, communicated with stories of people and children. This song is called "light". There is no darkness without light, once I read. I hear the sounds of memories and events. I reach out to you for confirmation that I remember right?  
I also hope to please, forgive me for anything I could have done better and I simply didn't have the capacity for.
It is a calming song, of a movie about war, about the cruelty and beauty of life and an attempt to put the ultimate sacrifice and loss in its place.. In all the fight, I hope I gave her a seed of calm and hope. She fought her final battle. I really caught myself feeling: "She loved kindness, she loved goodness and she was righteous, did she suffer less? Does anyone suffer less because of their qualities?" I hope she rests in peace. I hope we will meet again. Actually, we are we are a bit, when I/we can see a glimpse of your light through seemingly random events where. I also find some calm at times, some peacefulness in this terrible loss, you whom are hugging us reading this. You, me, we didn't deserve to go through such pain.
Thank you. Grazie. Rest in peace Mum, and wonderful Grandma too.

[cinemageplt]

The Thin Red Line is the most beautiful movie war i've seen.

[The_Urk_Slayer_]

The Thin Red Line is the greatest War movie ever made. It is a soul touching masterpiece about how war destroys humanity.

[malcolmhill]

By far one of the most thought provoking, visceral films I ever watched. It came out roughly at the same time as Saving private Ryan so didn't get the coverage. But I think it was streets ahead in displaying the emotions around all the blood and Gaul. A thinking man's Saving Private Ryan in my view.

[papadoc]

My dear wife...
You get something twisted out of your insides with all this blood, filth and noise.
I wanna stay changeless for you.
I wanna come back to you the man i was before.
How do we get to those other shores?
To those blue hills...
Love.
Where does it come from?
Who lit this flame in us?
No war can put it out...
Conquer it.
I was a prisoner.
You set me free.

[vijant]

Nobody does better than Hans Zimmer at using simple note repetition to build up a track until it swells with emotion and feeling….seen the man live in concert…..absolute master of his art…

[englishrose]

Zimmer is a modern day genius. By far the greatest living composer of film and TV music by miles. His music will be around in 2-300 years time just like J S Bach, Mozart and Beethoven are now.

[BigTexan]

'If we never meet in this world...let me feel the lack'

[timcorbett]

The transition at around 3.46m is absolutely stunning

[Lulustucru]

Hans Zimmer's best work in my opinion... I like his other works but he really did achieved something with this one... This soundtrack is kinda underrated also, which is sad...

[massimilianopagliaruli]

Un film bellissimo... Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin... inarrivabili! E Hans Zimmer ha avvolto tutto il film con musiche indimenticabili!

[Winkler]

God is light and in him is no darkness.

[alainmilleliri]

ABSOLUTELY DIVINE. ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE SOULS CAN UNDERSTAND AND FEEL SUCH PIECE OF BEAUTIFUL ART.

[andrewman]

I remember riding my bike during my freshman year of college the day after I first dropped acid while listening to this song and being struck by how immensely beautiful nature is...watching the slow southern breeze move the leaves of the live oak trees while the transition at 3:46 was happening was the closest I've ever come to understanding the true divine beauty of the natural world.

[Metoobie]

This was a film about the poetry behind the blood and guts. Yes, the blood and guts exist, but this film explored the mind. Some people will never understand and frankly, soldiers don't want them to understand. Soldiers that looked into this abyss regret it. There is no going back. Personally, I went and continue to go, so that other people would never have to try to understand. Just today, I was helping a little 2-year old Ukrainian girl, refugee. I hope she may never understand war and the stupid reasons we engage in it. But... I and my brothers and sisters in arms will do our best to make sure you, little one, never have to see what we have seen. Lest we forget.

[RiseFromTheAshZ]

This album, self professed by Hans Zimmer as his best work, is impeccable. This song washes over a feeling of tranquility, leading to a state of serenity.

[benweston]

The transition at 3:40 is so immensely am in awe.

[searchtruth]

The best story about war to-date. Profound on so many levels.

[antoinegold]

3:45 this moment... A man is crying in Heaven, the peace is into my soul forever...#HansZimmer = Beethoven

[DMalltheway]

Being at Daintree National Park in Australia and looking up into the sun while walking with the trees above brings so much emotion and character from nature.