after view this film many and many time since i first saw it i come to the conclusion that this film basically put on screen my feeling a to why i dislike and still continue to dislike the 90 or post millenium american pseudo culture . at first i do not understand it ( the metaphor and such ) but have view it countless time over the past few year i have develop an understanding of this truly remarkable film . critic over the year have pan this film a a glorification of meaningless violence and when in fact the film itself be basically the 90 equivalent to kubrick dr. strangelove and where it turn the paranoia of a nation into satire and then deconstruct it in the best way possible . everybody who be read this review right now have probably see the film anyway so i would not reiterate the plot and but what i will do be try and help explain the concept of the film since it quite obvious that there be a few people out there who do not understand this film . the 90 a decade after the reagan year and a time for the next generation to settle down and basque in the trail of excess that the previous decade leave behind . what be we leave with in western civilization . medium sensationalism and the counter culture of people who watch car crash . oliver stone very much play on the idea of erial killer turn medium story turn pop icon which have be quite evident in the case of people such a charles manson and richard ramirez . what oliver stone manages to do be portray the negative in the 90 and particularly american pseudo culture in the 90 . you have rodney king and o. j simpson and tonya harding and waco and the menendez brother . and all these thing be link by a single medium and 90 television . the sensationalism of the medium saturate most of western civilization today and and we live in a world where it more important to see celebrity on the front of magazine or right wing televangelist tell u that we need to give them money than it be to focus on the real issue that exist in this world . natural born killer relate to this . what natural born killer play on be the question why do we and the people and turn on to cnn and watch a white bronco cruise through the street of los angeles one day in 1994. in turn and natural born killer play on the culture question why do people stop to see car crash . it also ask the question be that guy on television crazy because he kill 90 plus people or be i crazy for watch a white bronco cruise through the street of los angeles . so there be 3 question that natural born killer raise without a lot of people really understand them . what the film do instead of answer these question be let the viewer decide for himself or herself whether the serial killer on television be crazy for kill people or we be crazy for actually watch a serial killer talk on television . so why do the critic despise this film . the critic despise this film because what they see on the film be themselves in wayne gale . robert downey jnr accurately portray the absolute false hysteria and false machismo of tabloid figure such a geraldo riviera and oprah windfrey et al and in his characterisation of wayne gale . he play the archetypal medium figurehead that live in newsroom and talk into mobile phone and smoke cigarette and drinking coffee and watch television and live deceitful private life . another reason why the critic hate this film be because of the subversive message that it portray in the script . the writer grow up in the 50 and 60 when the paranoia of cold war be still in their face everywhere they go . after the cold war be over these same people start ask themselves and well and who be the enemy now . some of them start realise that the enemy wasn not 10 and 000 mile away hide in a mountain and the problem be not attach to a very large metal object that go boom . and but rather the fact that the real enemy be in the corporation and medium and the real power of a nation doesn not rely in the leader but the television . natural born killer subversively explain this and that they be the problem and and many member of the mainstream medium do not like because they be what the film be about . why do the general public despise this film . because the same people who hate this film be the same people who the film maker be laugh at when they make it . when the character of mickey be on the television give his interview and and the film cut to a simple black and white image from a stock house of a typical american family sit around the television and the same people who hate this film be the typical american family sit around watch the interview and glue to the television like mindless zombie . overall this film be brilliant and it tell it exactly how it be .