Badlands

Badlands was an unconventional movie but made more sense initially for me than did Moonrise Kingdom. It focused on two young individuals who both had no attachments in their situations and therefore run off in hopes of being together. I found Holly potentially more emotionally unstable than Kit who was tried and killed after a killing sore that led him and Holly across the United States. Holly seemed to hold few of her own thoughts and took Kit's rationalizations for killing without question. It seemed she just went through the motions until eventually getting bored and leaving Kit. I found her the most frustrating character to understand. Kit, a 25 year old who is still caught in youth, and avoiding adulthood, wants to personify James Dean. He wants to have fame and create an identity for himself because he lacks any true ties other than Holly. You know from the beginning that the relationship will not last because Kit&Holly are so different and lack the capability to have a relationship. Though I was confused by some of the actions in the film I liked it and found it drastically different from movies i tend to watch, though that is also the case for all the movies we have viewed in class.