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Terrence Malick announced himself to the world of cinema with this film, which I think is a pretty solid debut. The film and the story itself isn't that engaging, but I really wanted to know what happened next and how Holly and Kit's relationship changed. Martin Sheen gives a perfect performance as a man who's got nothing left to loose and tired of living a dull life. Sissy Spacek also gives a great performance as a girl who just carries on with the escape because she doesn't really have a clear objective in life. The cinematography in the film is beautiful, it uses the typical northern landscapes to put the audience in the right atmosphere to watch the movie. Malick's direction of the film is great for a first time. I feel like it dragged a bit at the beggining before the real story began, but besides that it was quite good.
Kit is capable to kill anybody in order to mantains his relationship with Holly, and even shoots innocent people that didn't know they where wanted. As the film advances, he paranoids a bit about his safety and Holly's, until the point he cleans everything he touches and kills almost everyone that has seen them in any point. He would kill at any cost, and the audience can see that he only cares about himself and Holly, and doesn't think about anything or anyone else. Humans tend to be violent when it comes to their safety, because we sometimes think everyone wants to harm us and we defend ourselves no matter the consequences.
After the movie kicked off (for me it's when Kit kills Holly's father), the story got much more interesting and had more content for the audience to correctly set in the mood and engage with the story. I think, had it been more slow at the beggining, the audience would lose interest in the film and maybe would'nt care at all. Also the fact that the movie makes you root for the "bad guys" is incredible because I really wanted for Kit to survive. As I said, the storie's pace is much faster after the first kill, and in between that, there's a fantastic character study of Kit and Holly that makes you understand the circumstances they're under.
At the end of the movie, it can be easily seen that Holly and Kit didn't really have any motive for the killings they made (besides surviving), as Holly finally turns herself up and leaves Kit, and Kit also turns himself up after he sees he's alone in this. The only reason they did what the did was to maintain their relation, because they had each other. When both separate, there is really no other motive to continue escaping. And when Kit meets Holly at the end after they're captured, Kit doesn't get mad because he understood the situation. At the end it wasn't a really strong relation, it was only united for the sake of surviving.
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