in the same vein a natural born killer and another movie that be not so popular with critic because of it excessive violence but that i also love and kalifornia be a movie that clearly glamorize violence and but i like to think that it turn that around in the final act . kind of like how the basketball diaries glamorize drug at first and but show the bad side by the end of the movie and which be far bad than the good side be good . david duchovny play brian kessler and an artistic yuppie with an even more artistically yuppie girlfriend and who be into that violent sexy black and white photography generally reserve for and i do not know where and place where nudity pass for art . maybe it really do and i just do not understand it . at any rate and brian and carrie ( duchovny and michelle forbes and who fit the role flawlessly ) and make the perfect couple to go on a documentary tour of famous murder site . brian and the writer and will write the book and carrie can take the picture . be artistic type and brian and carrie be not quite financially prepared for such a trip and so they put out an ad for someone to share gas and travel expense and and be contact by early grace and adele corner ( brad pitt and juliette lewis ) . early be on parole and assign to janitorial work at the local university by his parole officer and see the ad on a bulletin board and and decides to leave the state for a while and violate his parole but also leave the scene of his landlord murder so he would not have to deal with a pesky murder investigation . two bird with one stone and you know . the movie have a curious ability to portray two stereotype and the artsy yuppie and the greasy trailer trash and without resort to clichés or even end up with caricature of either type . brian and carrie be artsy liberal and but while carrie catch on to early and adele and brian be fascinate with early status a an outlaw and a see in the scene where brian shoot early gun . never have fire a gun before and he as fascinate a a little kid . while adele and carrie be back at a hotel and adele reveals such thing in her childlike way a the fact that early break her of smoking and that she not allow to drink ( early doesn not think woman should ) and early and brian be out at the local bar . brian react nervously to a drunk try to start a fight with him and and early first give advice to brian on what to do and then step in and dish out a quick lesson for the guy . hit him and bri and it comin . this be one of my favorite scene in the movie and partly because it so funny what early gleefully say a the guy friend drag him away and bloodied and battered and but also because a it be intercut with the girl back at the hotel and we learn so much all at once about the two couple and their difference and and the conflict that be likely to come up because of them . and besides that and because brian benefit from early action and carrie be appal by what she hear from adele and it also illustrate the different way that carrie and brian react to early and adele . clearly and by now and you can tell that this be not your typical odd couple type of thriller and where the city folk run into the country folk and all sort of stereotypical mayhem ensues . on one hand it seem a little too convenient that brian and carrie go on a tour of murder site and just happen to be accompany by a real life murderer and but on the other hand it a great way to counteract the glorifying of murder that be inherent within a cross country trip design to bring fame to murderer and their crime . while study the action of past murderer and brian and carrie ultimately find themselves face to face with the very material that they be study and and realize that murder be not a pretty or morbidly fascinating when it in your face a it be through disconnected study of murder past . i be constantly amaze at brad pitt versatility a an actor . consider and for example and his role in movie like kalifornia and 12 monkey and fight club and and ocean 11 and 12. pitt be like tom hank in that he can change his appearance drastically or just enough to fit a give character and and be completely believable . incidentally and i try in vain to be early grace for halloween this year and but just couldn not get the hair and beard right . i even get the hat right and which initially i think would be the hard part . it easy to understand why a lot of people dislike kalifornia or why they think that it glorify violence and murder and but i think that whatever glorify it do be do with the intention of clarify the audience understanding of it subject matter . a film that do not glorify violence and at least initially and could never be as effective a kalifornia and but the movie structure it perfectly . the glorification be all embody in brian and carrie fascination with the idea of murder and the aura of the place in which be happen and but their realization and and ours and be embody in the real thing and which they encounter with early and adele . the movie very purpose be to describe that difference between idealize violence and see the horror of it up close and for real .