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Article: Natural Born Killers. (motion picture)
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- January 1, 1995
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Although Natural Born Killers appears to be a sophisticated film, aware of a variety of discourses from McLuhan to Burroughs to Baudrillard, Oliver Stone's meditation on the mediascape finally looks confused and dated. After Network, the films of David Cronenberg, Man Bites Dog, and numerous self-reflexive, postmodern movies, it is a considerable stretch these days to make a film with something incisive to say about the media. The media, after all, become steadily self-parodical as they devolve. Everyone becomes a media critic as the banality of the media circus and the commercial interests that underpin it become brazenly transparent. The persistent preoccupation these days ...
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