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Badlands (1974)
★ 7.5 · 1,331 ratings on TMDB
In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
DirectorTerrence Malick
The emergence reading
Badlands keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
