Terrence Malik, this cold and talented, but hideous film most of the time, is his debut as a director. In the film, Kit and Holly drove across the Midwest of the United States, eventually ending the lives of more than a dozen people. When filming ``Poor Mountains and Bad Waters'', Malik was a student of philosophy at Rhodes Scholar. He was 29 years old at the time, and the only connection with the film was the work of ``Two Cowboy Dragons'' (Pocket Money, 1972). screenwriter. "Poor Mountains and Evil Waters" is inspired by a bloody real story. 19-year-old Charles Starkweather (Charles Starkweather) in January 1958, with his 14-year-old girlfriend Carol Fugate (Carol Fugate) madly killed 10 people. Starkweather was sentenced to death after being arrested, while his girlfriend Fugate was sentenced to life imprisonment. There is no doubt that "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" will be used to compare with three other American films-Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (Bonnie and Clyde), Fritz ·Fritz Lang's "Fury" (1936) and "You Only Live Once" (1937)-However, it has a different interpretation of violence and death. Malik neither quoted Freud to explain the protagonist nor attributed the whole thing to the background of the panic. Society (if it is to be explained) is moderate. "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" is narrated by Holly. Her voice is monotonous, with a slight midwestern nasal tone, and the sentence pattern of her speech is very similar to the way in "True Romance" (True Romance, 1993). She said at the beginning of the film: "I never thought that the things in the small towns and alleys would eventually end in the poor mountains and bad waters of Montana." After ending the lives of 6 people, she decided to never "do nothing with those damned." People are mixed together". Like Bonnie and Clyde, Holly and Kitt also enjoyed incredible exposure in the media after becoming famous overnight. ("The whole world is watching us," Holly said, "because they don't know what Kitt is going to do next.") But their lack of enthusiasm makes them different from the thugs of the 1930s. At the end of their desperate journey, Holly, tired of telling us that she finally lost time, was sitting next to Kit's driver's seat, pressing her tongue against her palate, and uttering a complete sentence. . Mr. Malik did not try to romanticize his killer, He succeeded in doing this, but for a while, the tree house where Kit and Holly hid was very exquisite, just like what he did for Tarzan and Jane during the MGM studio era. The performances of the two actors Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek were very wonderful, showing the state of contemporary children who are outstanding, unusual, cold and self-obsessed; the performance of other supporting actors It's equally good. Audiences may rightly question Malik’s perspective in filming this film, but no one will question his talent. There is no doubt that this is an important and exciting movie.
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