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Badlands, with Steven DeLay (Malick 1)

Psyop Cinema

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The Joker Dissolves and the Goddess Coagulates

I find the holly character very Really terrifying. There's a lot of beautiful lines that she has or very interesting or poetic stuff for sure. She wants to be taken away to a magical land with her husband which is odd because she's been snapped out of normal life and this james dean violent figure has taken her as a lover. But what really struck me is that just before that happens uh when these people come for them that kit kills Her saying about she likes the wood She likes the lonesome aspect of them. I think it's very telling about not to overuse the word but yes, the dissociative kind of mk aspects of um of a lot of the movie are

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