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Badlands (1974)
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Still one of American cinema's most powerful, daring filmmaking debuts, Terrence Malick's Badlands is a quirky, visionary psychological and social enigma masquerading as a simple lovers-on-the-lam flick. Inspired by the 1958 murders in the cold, stark badlands of South Dakota by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the film's plot, on the surface, is similar to that of other killing-couple films, like Bonnie and Clyde and Gun Crazy. Martin Sheen, in an understated, sophisticated performance, plays the strange James Dean-like social outcast who falls in love with the naïve Sissy Spacek--and then kills her...
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Badlands Movie Review by AJ  (7/8/2006) |
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Based in part on the real-life 1958 killing spree committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, Badlands is a brilliant, poetic debut for director Terrence Malick, one of the best debuts in cinematic history. Badlands is also a very disturbing film, as we watch Martin Sheen's Kit kill people calmly, almost...
(complete Badlands review by AJ)
I am one of those people who could not sit through 'The Thin Red Line', so I wasn't exactly looking forward to checking out Terrence Malick's earlier work starring Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen. How surprised I was to find a fascinating film about love, murder, childhood, road trips and living off the land. A great flick...
(complete Badlands review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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