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Summary: Take Another Look
Review: This film is not "about" the glorification of violence. It is not "about" the influence of the media. To see what is is about, fast forward to the scene in the motel room
where the girl is held captive. In the window, images fly by at a frantic pace, belying Mickey's calm exterior.These images are both experiences from Mickey's past as well as the collective past, those outside Mickey's direct experience. They are shown to be the
subconscious driving forces behind Mickey's violence. What is inside Mickey now surrounds him. Stone splatters Mickey's mind upon the walls. It's brilliant. This scene, and other like it in the film, go a long way to answer the question "Why Mickey? Why Mallory?" A fairly relevant question these days. But these aren't the only "invisible" forces discussed in the film. Mallory senses these forces in the scenes with Russell Means. These forces exert power over the
characters. They are shown as malevolent forces, seeking retribution for the killing of the grandfather. Or perhaps they are the swing of the pendulum once balance
has been destroyed. In either case, they are more powerful than either Mickey or Mallory, who, up to this point in the film, have, together, controlled their worlds:
the masters of death. It is the first time in the film that Mickey and Mallory face consequences, an important statement in the film. At the end of the film, Mickey ascension to almost superhuman power may be because he has shed the skin of his past and joined with the powerful hidden forces.
He is tranformed in some way; a metamorphisis occurs in appearance as well as attitude: perspective. A shift has occurred.
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Summary: A Little More To It
Review: This film is not "about" the glorification of violence. It is not "about" the influence of the media. To see what is is about, fast forward to the scene in the motel room where the girl is held captive. In the window, images fly by at a frantic pace, belying Mickey's calm exterior. These images are both experiences from Mickey's past as well as the collective past, those outside Mickey's direct experience. They are shown to be the subconscious driving forces behind Mickey's violence. What is inside Mickey now surrounds him. Stone splatters Mickey's mind upon the walls. It's brilliant. This scene, and other like it in the film, go a long way to answer the question "Why Mickey? Why Mallory?" A fairly relevant question these days. But these aren't the only "invisible" forces discussed in the film. Mallory senses these forces in the scenes with Russell Means. These forces exert power over the characters. They are shown as malevolent forces, seeking retribution for the killing of the grandfather. Or perhaps they are the swing of the pendulum once balance has been destroyed. In either case, they are more powerful than either Mickey or Mallory, who, up to this point in the film, have, together, controlled their worlds: the masters of death. It is the first time in the film that Mickey and Mallory face consequences, an important statement in the film. At the end of the film, Mickey ascension to almost superhuman power may be because he has shed the skin of his past and joined with the powerful hidden forces. He is tranformed in some way; a metamorphisis occurs in appearance as well as attitude: perspective. A shift has occurred.
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Summary: The ABSOLUTE WORST film ever made
Review: When director Stone gave viewers Jim Morrison's euphoric, visual perspective of his drunken, drugged journey in "The Doors," it was a hint of what would later come. In-your-face directing, fast edits and psychedelic direction becomes a bore within the first five minutes. This is as cynical as movies get. The plot: the "media," news media that is, plays up serial killers Harrelson and Lewis as heros. The performances are great, but Stone's direction of the film is just awful. Impossible to bare for more than 20 minutes. Most critics and viewers agree. Stick to "Wild at Heart" or "Thelma and Louise."
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Summary: Dazzled at the movie theatre
Review: The graphic violence, visuals and frantic pace of the movie entralled me in the movie theater. I will always remember their NBK characters whenever I see Woody Harrelson and Juliet Lewis. An artistic masterwork. If a movie is suppose to make you feel, this movie made me feel. I compare it to how I felt during parts of Jurassic Park 1, Return of the Empire, Pulp Fiction. But with NBK the feeling lasted throughout the entire film. Disclamer: I haven't seen it on the small screen yet, and I originally saw this movie in theater with no idea what it was about.This film made me feel how I imagine someone on psychadelic "shrooms" or acid might feel.
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Summary: sarcastic
Review: This film means to be sarcastic about public and media hunger for violence in our culture. Any comments other than that about it are missing the point. I wouldn't see it twice though.
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Summary: This Movie is interesting
Review: This movie does not as people say glorify violence. It shows the amamture careless nature of people in the 20th century. That's all. The way Oliver Stone shows it is interesting. The film techniques are great. Love the camera angles and B/W. That's what brought me on to it. There is a huge difference between Tarantinos version and Oliver Stones version. Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Woody Harrleson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Julliette Lewis and Robert Downey jr.
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Summary: Time has not been kind.
Review: when I was 14 I thought this film was a cinematic achievement. But now looking back at it, I don't even really find Bob Richardson's photography that interesting,which is the primary main attraction here as with all of Oliver Stone's films. The Rodney Dangerfield scene however is wonderful, the rest isn't.
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Summary: Too radical for this era
Review: I watched this film when I was younger, and I couldn't understand a thing about it, except that M&M where insane. However, when I was older I watched it again and was amazed! I'm not going to use a large vocabulary like so many others, although I could, but the results will be that a great deal of people won't understand what I'm saying. All and all this movie gives us everyday joes a look at the power the media has on us. It shows us how, even though the media are bloodsucking, heartless people, we make them that way by living by there every word like it's a bible or something and always craving for more of the same carnage and madness. Personally, I don't think that the 90's was ready for this film, that not only was it far too radical and extreme, but also a film in which you need to devote a great deal of thought towards. This is a film like no other, but keep in mind that if you pay attention half heartedly to NBK, then you'll walk away unsatisfied and scratching your head in a questioning way.
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Summary: Meant to be a Parody
Review: 'Natural Born Killers' is meant to be a spin-off of the image of violence that the public has given our society in the past decade or so. The movie is also a detailed bio of the lives of the unfortunate few people out there who end up becoming mass murderers. The public, in general, recognizes our ability to see things on television that may be sexual or violent and laugh at them and not try to generate that material to reality. But, when a child does copy actions from TV, businesses get sued and so on. This movie justify's why violence does take place; from sexually abused children growing up and not from things that we see on television. The 'I Love Mallory' scenes were meant to mock the public's image of violence, vulgarness and sex on television to show where the line is drawn between television entertainment and reality. The content is pretty graphic; the only reason that this wasn't given an NC-17 rating was because it had a lesson behind it; which was that television is responsible for nothing.
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Summary: Hate to disagree...But I must!!!!
Review: I guess almost everyone missed the point Stone was trying to make here. Social Satire! He pokes fun at everything in sight, from the exagerated actions of our two anti-heroes (Harrelson & Lewis), the hypocrisy of rating-hungry sensationalistic "tv" reporters (Downey), to the justice system and the corrupt fools who run it, to law enforcement in general, even to the capture scene with the police resorting to barbaric measures for no reason whatsoever! Not to mention a miniscule supporting roll for Dangerfield that was worthy of an Academy Award in my book! No, I am not a sick person who laughs at car accidents or mass-murder, nor do I condone the actions of Harrelson and Lewis as socially acceptable. I just enjoy a great flick, and this is one!
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