Badlands
“Burning Love on the Great Plains in 1959!”
CrimeDramaRomance
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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This film feels like a beautiful, unsettling dream, observing a journey through a landscape both stark and stunning. It's a melancholic, almost detached exploration of youthful rebellion and its consequences, imbued with a poetic, fatalistic grace that lingers long after the credits roll.
dreamlikemelancholicrebelliousfatalisticpoeticsteadylyrical cinematographyvoice-over narrationnaturalisticdreamlike Americanayouthful delusionlove and crimeAmerican myth-makingfatalism
mass murderfugitiveon the runon the roadkilling spreesouth dakotabadlandsrunaway couplefugitive loversinspired by true events
