Kit and Holly

Oma 2021-12-31 08:02:00

At the beginning it gave me the feeling of Mark Twain’s novel Tom Sawyer, a smart, pretty kid who doesn’t care about anything, but after he took out the gun and killed Holly’s father, he moved from the fairy tale world. real world.

The prototype of the reality is that a 19-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl killed more than 10 people along the road. The boy was sentenced to death, the girl was imprisoned for life, and two unskilled children. I was wondering whether the sentence was too heavy.

I think I can understand the boy’s feelings. A person who doesn’t know what he did, feels that he is out of reality at once, but he can’t escape, knowing that he has made a big mistake, but there is no way to make up for it. , So I started my own flight. This is human nature. When there is no way to make up for my mistakes, I need to find a real way to implement it to ensure that things are not out of control and are still under my control. From that moment on, we cannot treat them with normal morality, because they have broken away from the shackles of morality and law and become human animals, but why do they continue to kill people, mainly boys, girls have nothing significant yet The ability to judge, and there is no ability to prevent it, it is estimated that it is affected by society and culture to become a hero, but the details include the cruelty of children, and the game-like ignorance of all things, including other people’s lives and pain. But it is these pictures that tell us what we should do? Are we cruel? Or are we insensible? In the challenge.

This movie is not a unique movie. Like many road movies, it is more stable and low-key.

The movie is a surreal world, which separates individuals and puts them in individual spaces, simple narratives, even romantic, cowboys, landscapes, beauties, unfettered in a sense, and the girl’s whispering voice, Beautiful music has no horrible factors, but there is pressure hanging on the head all the time, because unlike any event in reality, any ordinary picture feels abnormal. This kind of rebellious feeling is very strange. Yes, and what is worthy of admiration is that this kind of narrative shows the most basic spirit of American culture. Ordinary characters are in this situation. They are also ordinary characters. There is no myth and no demonization. The attitude of the last policeman also reflected a certain atmosphere of that era. I don't know much about it, but can I clearly feel a kind of freedom at that time? Anti-traditional? fanaticism?

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Badlands quotes

  • Holly Sargis: [voice over narration] Then sure enough Dad found out I been running around behind his back. He was madder than I ever seen him. His punishment for deceiving him: he went and shot my dog. He made me take extra music lessons everyday after school, and wait there 'till he came to pick me up. He said that if the piano didn't keep me off the streets, maybe the clarinet would.

  • Father: [to Kit] I don't want you hanging anymore. I don't wanna see you again. Understand?

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