Bonny and Clyde

Bonny and Clyde (1967)
IMDB #214 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061418/]

The Gist:
Bonny and Clyde are two lovely country folk that fall madly in love for each other within the course of an hour or so and go an adorable adventure where they rob banks and kill people and lob grenades at the police and write poetry and get burgers with Gene Wilder and...okay, so this movie's pretty random. It has that sort of carefree attitude toward violence that you would find in a film like Band of Outsiders, where young reckless individuals delve into crime and only come to find out the consequences of these actions too late. Beyond that though, there is something very engaging about this film and its later predecessors (Badlands comes readily to mind). I think its the idea of being lost in youth and embracing violence as a facet of freedom. It's an obviously misguided idea, but powerful nonetheless. And where some would take this concept and turn it into sensationalism, like Natural Born Killers, Bonny and Clyde and its spiritual descendant Badlands extend these actions to a greater nature of man and of nature. At its core, this is what Bonny and Clyde symbolize.