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asterisk8
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10-Aug-2011, 2:08 AM

Badlands

Oh, Malick, you were light years beyond everyone else from the very beginning, weren't you? What a strangely beautiful and disturbingly dispassionate tale of an aimless quest for freedom in the face of death. I loved that Malick never condones or condemns his characters' actions in the film. Much in keeping with his Heideggerian background, things are what they are, people do what they do, and the mere fact of their existence is enough,  without theorizing a psychological "why".

9/10 roundy things