The Outlaw and Sissy Spacek

Want a great movie to Netflix? Here you go. It's Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek when they looked like this instead of this and this, plus it's the debut film of the famously un-prolific filmmaker Terrence Malick, so if you see it you've already seen 25% of his body of work.



But the real reason to see it (or one of them, anyway), is because Sissy Spacek's character gets all the great voiceovers. I don't know if they're good out of context, but I'll paste in one of them just for the hell of it:

One day, while taking a look at some vistas in Dad's stereopticon, it hit me that I was just this little girl, born in Texas, whose father was a sign painter and who had only just so many years to live. It sent a chill down my spine, and I thought - Where would I be this very moment if Kit had never met me? Or killed anybody? This very moment? If my Mom had never met my Dad? If she'd of never died? And what's the man I'll marry gonna look like? What's he doing right this minute? Is he thinking about me now, by some coincidence, even though he doesn't know me? Does it show on his face? For days afterwards, I lived in dread. Sometimes, I wished I could fall asleep and be taken off to some magical land, but this never happened.

Anyway, it's a cool movie.