There are the apparent reviews circulating of meaningless violence in Natural Born Killers, some may say inspirational to "wannabe" murderers. But without getting into the age old debate of the effect of violence on screen on real life, in my humble opinion I'd say this film is based more on the media, and Oliver Stone's rather harsh opinion on it. The "channel changing" video clips, Wayne Gale (superbly acted by Robert Downy Jr), the real news footage shown at the end; all presenting how we are spoon fed the modern world through a media filter. Are we naive enough to be completely desensitised by years of television? Does the news have no effect on us whatsoever? Of course the thousands of Mickey and Mallory fans we see congregated outside their courtroom present the people that do exist in our culture. I will stop with my personal analysis and simply say one more thing. The film is superb.
Review of Natural Born Killers
