Revisionism In Days Of Heaven

The film Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick is an agrarian film, which holds the two values as the film is nostalgic but more of revisionist. The film starts by showing the factory that Bill was working in, which brings the ideas of urbanization and industrialization and the corruption effect that the two ideas had on the agrarian population. The film then proceeds by a transition from the city by taking a train that had smokes and fumes coming from it, which in addition hints on industrializations to an open beautiful field. In other words the transition from the revisionist view to the nostalgic view in the film is shown. In other words from the factory, crowded city and industrialization to the big beautiful farm and animals. In addition