Badlands is a 1973 Drama/Action film starring Martin Sheen (Kit), Sissy Spacek (Holly), Warren Oates (Father), Ramon Bieri (Cato) and Alan Vint (Deputy).
The movie starts with Kit doing his job as a garbage man. On his way home from work he see's Holly who is a young attractive teenager [explain]. He walks up to her and asks her if she wanted to go for a walk. She agrees but soon has to go home when her strict father tells her to come back in the house. Kit and Holly develop a relationship and soon have sex, but Holly's father makes them split when he finds out that she was dating behind his back and Kit was way older than his daughter [and from the otherside of the tracks].
Eventually Kit visits Holly and asks her if they can still date and just keep it a secret. Holly says she can't so Kit pays her dad a visit to tell him that he loves Holly. Holly's father brushes off Kit's comments and Kit leaves [what does father do when he learns of Holly's deception? Does this affect your opinion of him? What, if any, evidence is there that Kit is mentally unstable?].
Kit then breaks into Holly's home where he eventually kills her father. The couple leave the house soon after and take an adventure for the ages. They take shelter in the woods by building a treehouse. Kit starts by killing mostly everyone he encounters that can identify them as being Kit and Holly. The pair eventually stop at a rich man's house for a few hours to rest, and they rob his house of groceries and his car - a Cadillac no less - the American Dream baby. Kit murders more people to protect Holly. Holly wants to support him, but she doesn't think she can do it anymore. The couple eventually stop at a farm where they meet Cato and end up killing him plus two other people after locking them in a shelter [not sure if it matters but this happens before the episode at the rich man's house]. Kit and Holly try to catch a train but end up falling short of their goal. They soon find themselves in trouble when the cops catch up to them. They end up getting caught and both taken to jail.
The movie to me was really bad and boring but it is based off of a true story which is very interesting. In real life the couple were Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. Charles was sentenced to death and Caril Ann was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The only good aspect of the movie was that it was based on a true story and had good storytelling.
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