Badlands
50 Years Later, Terrence Malick’s Badlands Remains a Pure Encapsulation of American Violence
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Gus Mitchell“I got some stuff to say,” Kit says to Holly, in the first few minutes of Terrence Malick’s Badlands. “Guess I’m kinda lucky that way.” Released 50 years ago, Badlands is the violent, compulsive opening of Malick’s singular moviemaking life; he has spent that life directing films that demand seeing and re-seeing. For his part,…