http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/terrence-malick Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 27 May 2026 23:48:52 -0400 Wed, 27 May 2026 23:48:52 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/386/94-minutes-in-the-badlands-1973 By Kristina S. Ten - If you’re looking for another all-American cross-country love story, you’d be better off browsing movie aisles far, far away from the likes of Badlands. This 1973 title, director Terrence Malick’s debut film, turns the typical teenage romance on its head. First, predictably, boy meets girl. (He is on his way home from a day’s work of garbage-collecting; she, only fifteen, is innocently twirling a baton in her front yard.) Then: boy kills girl’s father, boy and girl run away together, driving from state to flat desert state, multiplying the body count and dodging the... Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:48 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/386/94-minutes-in-the-badlands-1973