Badlands is, without doubt, one of the finest directorial debuts of all time. It is a lyrical and disturbing road movie produced by a filmmaker who, despite his inexperience, managed to craft one of the great films of the decade in this warped romantic adventure about two young lovers and their senseless killing spree across the Dakota badlands.

Over the course of five decades Terrence Malick has become recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of his, or any other, generation yet his considerable talent is already present in every frame of his haunting debut as if his skill as a visual storyteller emerged effortlessly and fully-formed with this first attempt. There really are few first films as confident and…

Facts.

Holly is a naive, young girl. She has (/had) a dog. She is scared of being with Kit; she is scared of being without him. Kit is a lonely young man. He found a toaster. He is impulsive and charismatic and utterly insane. Badlands is all about the facts.

If I could ask Mr. Malick one question, it would be when facts ceased being sufficient to convey his vision. Badlands is an exceptional example of how fine a movie can be when it is straightforward, compelling, and 'easy' (which is a dirty word in some circles, apparently). This is not a dig against his emerging style as a purveyor of visualized emotion, but an appreciation of his skill at…

In his debut, Terrence Malick is an uncanny creator of pearlescent forms, a very stark balladeer, Mark Twain’s coolly ferocious heir. Small-town life in the 1950s makes for a void quickly filled with outlaw vanity and magazine-stand enchantment, garbage-man punk (Martin Sheen) and teenage baton-twirler (Sissy Spacek) meet and harmonize apathetic psyches in "the big marble hall" of Nature. He's a James Dean wannabe or Billy the Kid perhaps, acting mostly with his shoulders and pockets, a scarecrow with a rifle in the fields and suddenly a cracker-barrel philosopher when facing a recorder. She reads gravelly from Hollywood gossip digests and is told to enjoy the scenery, a freckle-dotted blank sheet of paper crouching by her murdered father (Warren Oates)…

Director Terrence Malick's feature film debut is a beautifully shot, elegantly crafted & fluidly narrated crime drama that wonderfully exhibits his cinematic eye for detail & breathtaking imagery and also happens to be his most accessible film to date.

Having gained a significant cult following over the years, this classic has a lot in store for both fans & detractors of this filmmaker, as the former will find an early glimpse of Malick's blossoming talent while latter will be pleased with the absence of those rambling philosophical voice-overs.

Loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather & his adolescent girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate in 1958, Badlands tells the story of Holly Sargis; a young teen who falls for an older rugged guy…

زمین های لم یزرع اولین فیلم بلند ترنس مالیک ی فیلم بدرد بخور و حساب شدس
ی داستان ساده رو روایت میکنه. فیلمش هم به قصه بها میده هم به شخصیت و اساسا تعادل رو برقرار میکنه در فیلم بین این دو مورد یعنی ن از قصه غافل میشه و ن شخصیت هاش رو فراموش میکنه
شخصیت های فیلم کیت با بازی مارتین شین و هالی با بازی سیسی اسپیسک,این دو شخصیت به شدت بی رحم و مزخرف هستند و نمیشه باهاشون همذات پنداری کرد اما این مشکل فیلم و مالیک نیست بلکه برمیگرده به نگاه فیلمساز به این دو شخصیت. مالیک به هر دو شخصیت به شکلی کوبنده و نکوهشی نگاه میکنه که البته خود بیننده هم دلیل این…

When I watch a Malick film I expect there to be beautiful long never-ending shots of nature stretching far as the eye can see. This film did exactly that and more with its exploration of the Badlands of Montana and the fields of North Dakota. It's been a long time since I saw my first Malick film, Days of Heaven, in Junior year high school film. Going into this movie I didn't even know it was by the director but finding out it was did not surprise me in the least. It's another story of a young couple trying to escape played expertly by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The accompanying xylophone theme that goes along with the film added…

'Badlands' is one of those films that I absolutely love, but constantly struggle to verbalise or articulate why. This is because even after having watched it multiple times, I still find it difficult to completely pinpoint exactly what the film is about even though it is a comparatively straight-forward narrative driven film instead of being an experiment in the absurd or surrealism like a Lynch or a Jodorowsky film.

Is Badlands about social detachment and isolation? Maybe, because the two primary characters of Holly and Kit live in the middle of nowhere in a deadbeat down called Fort Dupree where nothing much happens. Malick underlines the emptiness of their existence and the emptiness of the streets. So it is believable…