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...Sugariand Express. This didn't last very long in Boston, at the inauspicious Pans Cinema (from lisa to Disney last month), but last year it was touted along with Terry Malick's Badlands as an exciting new seventies road picture by a fresh young director. A good movie to be showing at Harvard Directed by Steven Spielberg, with Goldie Hawn. Ben Johnson, and Michael Sacks '70 of Leverett House and Albany...
BADLANDS. The affectless, antiseptic world of two young killers delineated with hard skill by Director-Writer Terrence Malick. A chilly, forbidding work that catches currents of casual violence which seem typically American...
...difficult problem to work a narrative out of numbness, but Terrence Malick, a former screenwriter making a fine start as a director, has solved it smoothly. Badlands is narrated by Holly in a swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries are shaped and peopled by popular legend. Kit, to her, looks just like James Dean. Her reminiscences sound like a diary read to a blank wall. She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented...
...lyrics of some Hit Parade ballad-but remain remote from each other. Talking about their eventual capture, Kit is most concerned about whether he will still be alive enough, after the shootout, to hear the doctor pronounce him dead. They are both living out parallel fantasies of glory, and Malick tells their story in the language of their secondhand dreams. He thus leaves himself open to accusations of condescension to his characters, but Badlands, which can cut sharply, also has a sort of reluctant compassion for Holly and Kit. The poverty of their desensitized lives not only propels them...
...Malick, who is 30, is a protégé of Arthur Penn, whom he thanks in the end credits and to whose Bonnie and Clyde he is indebted. Badlands, however, is very different in its sensibility - chilly, savage and rueful. It might better be regarded less as a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde than as an elaboration and reply. It is not loose and high-spirited. All its comedy has a frosty irony, and its violence, instead of being brutally balletic, is executed with a dry, remorseless drive...