Badlands, with Steven DeLay (Malick 1)
Psyop Cinema
The Exploitation of Kit and Holly
The two of them get together and it seems like they're feeding off each other by exploiting one another's weaknesses. Kit is a sort of dupe he is much more personally invested In the idea that their lovers on the run together because as you know to thomas uh Holly herself pretty early on after they leave is clear that she doesn't really love him. She's thinking of fantasizing about her future future husband and it's not kid Right at the end of the film um When when kid asks her to get in the car when when they're being chased by the helicopter she leaves him there So there there's a sense in which kid is very much the victim of his own fantasy He imag
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