While reading novel Ceremony and seeing the movie The Thin Red line I see many similarities. One they were similar is because both of the protagonists in both the movie and the novel were in World WarII. They both experienced traumatic events during the war and were affected by it. In Ceremony the protagonist Tayo has Post Traumatic stress disorder and this causes him to see flash backs. In the Thin Red Line the main character also has flash backs of his wife. He wanted to see his wife so badly that he imagined her. Seeing such traumatic events can break a mans soul. The authors are trying to show how war and violence can break the soul. Nature is not created to see such destruction and it corrupts the mind. See how all there is in the picture is just a broken head. Wars take People's human decency away by forcing you to kill another human being in senseless blood. soldiers call it following orders but in the real world it is just another part of our messed up life. In both of these movies they are trying to show how the war effects more then the mind but it also changes the person for better or for worse. It is mostly for the worse. In part of the movie it says something like the War tares apart the soul. And that is what the picture is showing is a broken solider. There also another theme that resinates throught out both works of art. 
One example of War breaking a part a soul in Ceremony is the character of  Harley and Leroy they both died in a drunk driving accident. This is sad but the reason they were drinking is because they were trying to feel something again. They were trying to feel hole again not broken broken. They were often drunk with many other veterans trying to self medicate with alcohol. 
In the movie The Red Line there are many scenes where the main character was not focused or thinking about the war but rather dreaming about his wife. His wife was the only thing that gave him reason to live. He was crazy about her and couldn't get enough of her but she ended up leaving him. He was now broken and it was hard for him to function. His wife broke up with him because of the war, the war breaks people both mentally and physically. The war had changed his wife and broke up her connection with his wife. 
The movie and the book also have a various poems that are thrown through out that relate to parts of the movie or play. The help show how the soul is breaking apart in a figurative way. one poem in the movie is explaining how Killing a person is like crushing and trampling the earth. The earth and nature is also breaking apart 
In short war breaks apart the human body mind and soul as shown by the novel Ceremony and the movie The Red Line.