"I never thought that the things in the small towns and alleys would eventually end in the poor mountains and bad waters of Montana." The voice-over of the heroine Holly set the tone of the whole film.
Seeing Terrence Marek’s film, you will immediately think of "Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967. They are so similar, but so different-for example, the latter became a The iconic works of the times are constantly mentioned; while "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" seems to be reclusive like the director himself.
Similar to "Bonnie and Clyde", "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" was inspired by a bloody true story: 19-year-old Charles Starkweather (Charles Starkweather) in January 1958, and his 14-year-old Girlfriend Carol Fugate (Carol Fugate) killed 10 people frantically. After being arrested, Starkweather was sentenced to death, while his girlfriend Fugate was sentenced to life imprisonment. In Marek’s shots, such a story of murder and escape was handled almost without smoke and fire, and even everywhere was filled with idyllic looseness and even leisure, but the dullness and depression were also under the beautiful and empty picture. Overflow everywhere.
At the beginning of the film, this was just a cheap youth drama in the Midwest: The garbage collector Kit fell in love with the girl Holly who was strictly disciplined by his father. There was no romantic relationship between them, but two people. They are all too weird and out of gregarious. They are dating under a beautiful tree. You can hardly feel any hormonal collisions. These young men and women are like Adam and Eve in the first Garden of Eden, pure and self-reliant, relying only on animal instincts. Act. So when Holly's father became their hindrance, Kit naturally killed him, burned the Garden of Eden on fire, and began to flee.
It is also an anti-social story, but "Bonnie and Clyde" is enthusiastic, action, and social collision; "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" is calm, purposeless, and deviating from society. The two films are also set in the American Midwest, and the protagonists are also innocent and even naughty, as if some primitive and pure natural power in the United States is presented to special characters. The former has a transcendental tragic color. Bonnie and Clyde were the alternative heroes of that era. When they faced a farmer and young man, they kindly and naturally introduced: "My name is Bonnie and he is Clyde. Germany, we are robbing the bank", received a enthusiastic response like praise from the other party. Kit and Holly in "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" are cold and childish. Every time they kill is just a mistake-they are always full of animal-like doubts and vigilance towards others. When living in a tree house far from people, the two are like Adam and Eve-with the original sin of murder, but living in nature as simple animals. Once in contact with people, unpredictable and uncontrollable violence strikes inexplicably.
Terrence Malik used a large number of extremely genius and beautiful shots to depict the process of their escape. The grand vision, the empty shots, and the slow horizontal movement create an atmosphere of emptiness, beauty, and even greatness, just like the beginning of the world. The beginning of mankind. He did not try to analyze the causes of the characters: whether Freud or the background of the era; similarly, he did not show an attitude of enthusiasm or defense towards the characters (at this point, he is influenced by the film The influential "True Romance" and other works are quite inferior). The whole movie is naturally like the animal world, and so absurd as the animal world. So we saw that when Kit was taken into the car at the end, an old policeman praised him for being a cute and polite child. Many policemen were
seeing him off rather than taking care of him... Sisi Spasek The performance with Martin Sean in this film is very wonderful, with a kind of careless trance. It’s said that Martin Sean at that time was a bit like James Dean, in fact, there is no need for such a comparison-James Dean is a rebellious idol, and in this film, Sisi Spasek and Martin Sean is more like Adam and Eve wandering in his own kingdom, the first and last people.
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