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Badlands, with Steven DeLay (Malick 1)

Psyop Cinema

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Malek's Badlands

Badlands is Malek's 1973 debut and stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The film was inspired by a real life a spree killing case the the stark weather fugate case I believe. There's frequent use of floral patterns fish bowls bird cage imagery peacock feathers in Badlands. When one looks at the psychology of Kit and Holly, it's clear that there's a heavy element of disassociation to the film sort of kind of hypnotism or sort of fairy tale dream quality.

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