[E]ach violent movement of the film is posed as a poetic moment in Heidegger’s sense of the term, an eruption of the possibility of transcendence in a world that has lost its potential for meaning and direction.

And this is not to say that Malick understands violence as poetry or transcendence. That is, unfortunately, fair to say of Peckinpah. But that Malick has taken the Starkweather myth and understood it in Heidegger’s terms.

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