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[Image] CLASS RELATIONS: The Bourgeois [Days of Heaven] The Farmer is wealthy (he is said by his accountant to be likely "the richest man in the Panhandle") and is the impetus for Bill and Abby's slide into deception and death. [The Thin Red Line] The commanding officers are from the upper-class: Tall is educated in Greek at Westpoint and Staros was a lawyer in peacetime. [Badlands] 
The rich man in the mansion where Kit and Holly hide out for a few hours represents the other half, presumably whom Kit wishes he was (notice how he confidently speaks while recording himself, spouting aphorisms into the dictaphone at the rich man's house, as if being surrounded by wealth (even if "borrowed") has given him the right to be "heard." Contrast this with his hesitant, hastily-worded "suicide note" he records in the squalid bus station phonograph booth. Also note the respect Kit shows the rich man by not killing him.
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands