Fang Fang:
Compared with "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Born to Kill", which impressed me a lot, this movie is slightly inferior to the above. One of the reasons is the abuse of "movie narration". Next to it, in the genre of road movies, it undoubtedly weakens the plot of the movie, making the "happening" that should have been exciting turned into "memories of the past". The narration of Badlands is Horry's inner monologue, delivered in an omniscient view akin to reminiscence. It's a kind of her perspective that unfolds a description of him with an inner weirdness. But in the plot, although he and she are lovers, there are many opposites in terms of values, character and behavior, and because she is preconceived, the audience's perspective will stay too much on Horry, and slightly less on KIT. pay attention to. After Horry was fed up with this kind of life and surrendered and went on a plane, the movie captured KIT's psychology with a series of close-up viewpoints. At this time, there was no narration, and a direct inspection of KIT was better than the intervention of the narration, and it was profound.
Contra:
To a certain extent, road movies have a sense of tragic fate of escape, a sense of situation that suppresses and suffocates people, and in the "currently ongoing" plot, plus an omniscient narration that overrides the characters, it is even more important. The breath of fate, suffocation. It's like the setting sun smears a golden edge on the evening clouds. More or less, the characters of KIT and Horry have some annoying things, such as Horry's indifference and KIT's old hat-like arrogance, and the use of narration brings the characters and the audience closer. psychology. On another level, the use of film narration allows the audience's point of view to shift from the stimulation of road movies to the character of KIT, from a sensory stimulation to a reflection of the soul, which enhances the depth of the film.
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