BADLANDS

dMYD DVD
Starring Martin Sheen

Y

BADLAAAANDS YOU GOTTA LIVE IT EVERYDAY, LET THE BROKEN HEARTS STAND AS THE PRICE YOU GOTTA PAY! WE’LL KEEP PUSHIN’ TILL IT’S UNDERSTOOD AND THESE BADLANDS START TREATING US GOOOD…
Bonnie and Clyde for cynics and psychopaths, Badlands is another fine film in the outlaw-running, lawman-shafting genre, but tonally-totally different to the jolly blood letting of Parker ‘n’ Barrow. Essentially a commentary on the romanticised nature of the older film, and of love and violence in general, the film depicts the teenage hoodlum Kitt as a genuine sociopath, his swathes of uncaring squib-blasting overlaid with the endless laconic babble of Sissy Spacek’s bored girlfriend. The mix of romantic cliché and almost cartoon levels of violence makes the film seem like a fairy tale from the mind of Harold Shipman (If he was cool. Which he wasn’t.), whilst the soundtrack and genius images compliment the overall feel of sixty pound prints on a college student’s wall. The scene in the posh man’s house is a masterpiece of cross-generational, class-snubbing comedy, whilst you must enjoy Michael McIntyre if you don’t admire Kitt blasting towards a police helicopter with only a torn-off Cadillac door for protection. Knights in denim, fucking the world up. A stupidly cool movie, and it rips it out of the media two decades before Natural Born Killers. KABOOOOOOM!