natural born killersreleased just long enough ago to be forget by today standard of speed amnesia and this film by oliver stone be worth see again . the violence in it be sicken just a few year ago and but such thing have quickly get normalize in our culture ongoing desensitization . ironically and this very process of medium desensitization be precisely the topic of this film satire . nbk have since even be the subject of copycat crime spree and or so the culprit claim . this be trouble and because while the film work hard to analyze the dubious process by which violent killer be turn into romantic hero in the mass medium and nbk seem unable to escape from the same orbit and end with the killer a living happily ever after and justify by the brutality of their background and and morally superior to the prison official and popular journalist who pursue them . but a a postmodernist satire of medium saturation violence and from wrestle to sit coms to real crime dramatization to obsessive live news interview and stone film be a thought provoking exercise that be stylistically mesmerize . a a postscript and several people accuse stone of incite copycat crime and call for him to be sue for damage which happen . the lawsuit be dismiss . at the least he be negligent and they argue . interest to me that the glorification of violence find everywhere in the thriller genre be take to be safely neutral and while a powerful satire of glorification be condemn a and well and too violent . the last time i check and this be always define a hypocrisy . the major contradiction in medium culture now be that on the one hand and natural born killer be revile for incite violence and while on the other hand and it be revile for be _too obviously_ critical of medium violence in a simplistic and unsubtle manner . but can we have it both way . no . a 2nd postscript on another form of hypocrisy represent quentin tarantino and the reign postmodernist king of cool who play with pastiche of pop culture genre and write the script for stone natural born killer and but then criticize the way the film be direct . ironically and tarantino then copy several formal film technique and innovation straight out of nbk for his later kill bill film . with the key exception that tarantino continue the tradition of glamorize violence . the tarantino crowd see itself a properly aesthetic and cool and far above the ham fisted stone . creepy isn not it .