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[Image] CHILDREN [Days of Heaven] A baby is seen during a lunch break out in the field. Children play in pond at Farmer's. The film's narrator Linda is a young child. [The Thin Red Line] Melanesian children playing with rocks and using rocks to break open nuts are the first humans shown onscreen. Witt and Hoke play games with the children. A Melanesian child cups wriggling crustaceans in his hands. Melanesian boys swim underwater while Witt is seen in a canoe and later when he's treading water. A young girl embraces Witt's mother when his mother dies in a flashback scene. A young boy (possibly young Witt) watches an older man bale hay in Witt's flashback. During the battle for Hill 210, Staros sees his soldiers dying and says in voice over, "Children," before defying Tall's order to sacrifice more of his men. When Witt gets a break off the line, he visits a Melanesian village and extends his hand to a Melanesian boy, who refuses it. After Witt dies, he's shown swimming underwater with Melanesian children,including the one who earlier refused to take his hand. [Badlands] 
Teenaged narrator Holly behaves as a child in some ways and keeps dolls and a dollhouse. Children are shown being led away from a school by a police officer in the documentary-style footage of the manhunt for Kit.
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands