Section C - Messages and Values - Badlands (1973)

Section C - Messages and Values

Badlands: Kit & Holly

Themes:

- The American dream is a recurring theme throughout the film, as it is in most lovers on the lam genre films.
- The music that plays at the beginning of the film is similar to true romane, another lovers on the lam film.

Media:

- When police are starting to look for Kit and Holly, the film cuts to an old sepia scene. This makes it look like an old wanted poster, and this style is similar to old western films. Similar settings also support the fact that the film is trying o replicate the western genre.

Entrapment and Freedom:

- The theme of being trapped and being free are frequent throughout the film.
- A cage in the scene indicates the couple are trapped. Wide open scenes of the prairie indicate the couple are free.
- Being in a vast area means that the couple are isolated from society.