Malik’s virgin works have revealed his distinctive image style, a sense of certainty in the dark, but it is full of dispersal and poetic, and this seemingly cheap and wrong love adventure in two child-like protagonists Showed up on the body. The two are like Adam and Eve, full of instinct and innocence, almost people can gradually ignore their crimes.
In the film, the western United States is full of beautiful scenery. The dead grass, desert and sand were replaced by the two people’s cabins in the bushes. The sun could still spread from the gaps in the leaves above their heads. So the play of Kit and Holly under their feet was also crowned with the holy light, even if they killed them. After a person, she is still as pure and beautiful as the golden boy and jade girl in the myth. Even at the end, when Kit was sent away by the police car, the sheriff beside him praised him for his cuteness and distinctive personality from time to time.
All natural forces come from nature. Just like Kit and Holly, killing has no motive, the happiness they get is natural, and all senses are the true manifestation of self-life. Therefore, under this assumption, modern society is cruel in the eyes of the director. Its order is cold and there is no warmth at all. Whether it is the people or other things in it, their combination always carries a fixed pattern. People always regret their mistakes, and always fight for their grievances... The medium of human social groups brings people mechanical and dullness.
But we can be fortunate to see that the life forms in the film are natural and powerful. From the director's gentle and kind perspective, the two children who committed crimes can still be comforted.
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