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What sets the film apart from others of its genre is Malick's complicated approach. Gorgeous, impenetrable images contrast sharply with Spacek's nostalgically artless narration, serving as ironic counterpoints, blurring concrete meaning and stressing that nothing this horrific is simple. Malick observes, rather than analyses, the couple in a manner as detached and apathetic as the couple's shocking actions. No judgment or definitive motivations are offered, though Malick's empathy often leans toward his senseless protagonists, rather than the star-struck society that makes killers famous. Compared with the interchangeable uniform cops who hunt them and the film's other nameless characters stuck in suburban banality, the couple are presented like tarnished, warped andfrustrated results of squelched individuality.
Badlands, on one level, views America's suffocating homogeneity and, conversely, its continued obsession with celebrities (individuals considered different but adored) as hypocritical. Ambiguous and bold, the movie hints that society may be as guilty as the killers. --Dave McCoy
What sets the film apart from others of its genre is Malick's complicated approach. Gorgeous, impenetrable images contrast sharply with Spacek's nostalgically artless narration, serving as ironic counterpoints, blurring concrete meaning, and stressing that nothing this horrific is simple. Malick observes, rather than analyzes, the couple in a manner as detached and apathetic as the couple's shocking actions. No judgment or definitive motivations are offered, though Malick's empathy often leans toward his senseless protagonists, rather than the star-struck society that makes killers famous. Compared with the interchangeable uniform cops who hunt them and the film's other nameless characters stuck in suburban banality, the couple are presented like tarnished, warped and frustrated results of squelched individuality.
Badlands, on one level, views America's suffocating homogeneity and, conversely, its continued obsession with celebrities (individuals considered different but adored) as hypocritical. Ambiguous and bold, the movie hints that society may be as guilty as the killers. --Dave McCoy
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1.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful film, a mangled release,
This review is from: Badlands (DVD)
I love this movie, and I was very much looking forward to the advertised widescreen release. However, when I popped in the DVD and saw the dread words "This film has been edited to fit your TV screen", my heart sank. I'll keep it for the pristine picture; however, I hope Warner Bros. Entertainment gets their act together, fixes this problem soon, and gives this film the widescreen release it so richly deserves.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Impossible d'ajustez votre appareil,
By Charles Gagnon "Charles" (Montréal, Québec, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Badlands (DVD)
Les films de Terence Malick sont toujours d'une grande poésie visuelle. Badlands ne fait pas bande à part. Sur le boitier il est indiqué que le film est en version panoramique ce qui est faux, il est en version «télé». C'est l'horreur! Un film de Malick ne peut être visionner dans ce format réducteur. Je déconseille complètement cette version.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cold, stark portrayal of young killers,
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This review is from: Badlands (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Holly (Sissy Spacek), a 15-year-old girl living in a North Dakota town, falls under the influence of twentysomething social misfit Kit (Martin Sheen). When her father (Warren Oates) stands in their way, Kit kills him and hits the road with Holly, who thinks she is in love with him. They hide out in the wilderness for awhile, and then go on the run, killing several people along the way.Director/screenwriter Terence Malick has given us characters that are emotionally barren, as reflected by the barren landscapes of North Dakota. They occasionally seem happy together, but most of the time they seem emotionally flat and detached from their own feelings; Holly seems as if she is in a constant state of shock. Malick's style is almost like that of a documentary, presenting the events and trusting us to draw our own conclusions. Sheen and Spacek, both at the beginnings of their careers, show a great deal of talent.
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