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Article: Natural Born Killers.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- October 7, 1994
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Oliver Stone hears America screaming, so he joins right in. His latest film, Natural Born Killers, tries to depict our putative love affair with violence both satirically and horrifically by telling the story of two lovers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) who are spree killers. The first half of the movie displays their monstrous idea of fun and shows how the trash media capitalize on the carnage. The balance of the story focuses on a TV interview of Harrelson in prison conducted by a Geraldo type (Robert Downey, Jr.); the interview goes awry and more blood flows.
In some of his previous movies, Stone used extreme realism to so intensify the violent passages ...