In A HIDDEN LIFE, director Terence Malick ninth feature film once again presents a couple closely tied to nature and torn by the darkness brought by humans upon it.   Reaching all the way back to his first feature, 1973 lyrical BADLANDS, loosely based on the Charles Starkweather killings, once again his inspiration is a true story of a couple set in a past decade where things seem simpler, and yet more starkly beautiful and deadly.
Nature plays an important…