8.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Badlands (1974)
Badlands (1974)
Overview
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
8.6
Overview
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film maintains a detached, observational tone, focusing on the psychological landscape of its characters and the banality of their actions rather than offering an explicit political critique or solution. Its themes of alienation and violence are explored without aligning with a specific ideological agenda.
The movie features traditional casting with no apparent intentional race or gender swaps for diversity. Its narrative focuses on character study and societal commentary without explicitly critiquing traditional identities from a diversity, equity, and inclusion perspective.
Secondary
Badlands, 1974, does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers entirely on the heterosexual relationship of the main protagonists and their journey, resulting in no depiction of queer identity within the film's scope.
The film "Badlands" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on the crime spree of Kit and Holly, with no elements related to transgender identity or experiences present in the plot or character arcs.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Badlands is an original screenplay loosely inspired by the real-life crime spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. The film's main characters, Kit and Holly, maintain the same genders as their historical inspirations, Charles Starkweather (male) and Caril Ann Fugate (female), respectively. No characters established as one gender in source material or history are portrayed as a different gender.
Badlands (1974) is an original screenplay loosely based on the real-life crime spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, both of whom were white. The actors portraying these characters (Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek) are also white, aligning with the historical figures.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.7
7.5
Critic Ratings
9.7
9.4
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