This film has similarities with the male and female characters in Malik's later "Days in Heaven". Malik will always take pictures of sinful people and sinful behaviors lightly and unhurriedly. Holly and Kit, the Bonnie and Clay-style desperate mandarin ducks have the artistic atmosphere of "Madman Pierrot". Holly's narration coats the film with a literary tulle. The passage in which Kit shot Holly’s father to be with Holly was calm and neat, but it was dark and sinful enough, just like the men and women who cheated on marriage in "Days in Heaven", but even so Malik used calm narrative and art, The melancholic character creation allows the audience to maintain ambiguous judgments on it. The two burned their father's house and fled to live in the wild, which also reminded me of "Madman Pierrot". The story of the film is quite simple. It is a story of a couple who escaped from outside the law, murdered while fleeing, entered a stranger's house and stayed forcibly, and finally couldn't escape the fate of being arrested. A typical Malik-style simple story, a style that promotes narrative by state, the integration and interaction of characters and nature, as well as the torrents hidden in the heart of the characters and the tension that may erupt at any time. Martin Sheen's Kit is in line with James Dean both in appearance and tone. Holly also said that he looks like James Dean, the rebellious spokesperson of that era. Such a film based on a true story about teenage murders and no mercy would normally add more or less condemnation and criticism to it, but Malik did not, but was filmed as a romance film. However, when the moment of killing is really reached, it can immediately increase the tension and show the cold-blooded side. This variety of presentation makes the characters richer and more three-dimensional, which is rare in this kind of rebellious murderer story.
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