This American country-themed movie tells a plain but slightly melancholic story. The film uses a little girl’s voiceover as a narration to unfold the whole movie. Whenever the little girl’s voice sounds, it is always accompanied by Melodious music alternated by violin and piano. When the movie progresses to the end of the tragedy, when the police and the protagonist meet each other, the music turns into a fierce symphony. The music produced by Ennio Morricone perfectly fits the storyline of the film and can be called a classic .
The film existed as an individual in the 1970s. It is a retrospective of silent film in both form and content. The dialogue is condensed, and the form emphasizes expressionism without relying on artificial light sources. Director Terrence Malick added a large number of empty shots to the film, accompanied by poetic voice-overs, and his lines also cherished ink as gold, and tried to play down the plot as much as possible, using "non-narrative style, I want to make a Beethoven symphonic film."
