The film talks about the teenage boy who has a family breakdown with her father and the criminal stages he will go through with Kate the criminal, who will fall in love with him slowly but whose father refuses to take Kate as his daughter. Kate killed her father and fled and took Healy with him but they eventually fell under the police.
Malick has come to be known and revered as a cinematic poet and philosopher, as a filmmaker who explores big ideas, but in Badlands in particular he also shows a knack for off-kilter humor.
[VIDEO ESSAY] Terrence Malick's self-penned feature debut is a haunting road movie pitched in '50s Americana. The film's razor-sharp tone of poetic irony is unique.
In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled.
